Elie Wiesel
Wiesel speaking at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2003
Born	September 30, 1928 (1928-09-30) (age 79) Sighet, Maramureş County, Romania
Occupation	Political activist, professor, novelist
Notable award(s)	Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Congressional Gold Medal

Elie Wiesel (born Eliezer Wiesel on September 30, 1928)^[1] is a writer, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of over 40 books, the best known of which is Night, a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps. Lester B. Pearson after accepting the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sighetu Marmaţiei (Hungarian: Máramarossziget, Ruthenian: Sihota) is a city in Maramureş County of Romania (in the Tisa Valley in Transylvania). ... MaramureÅŸ (Hungarian: Máramaros) is a county (judeÅ£) in the MaramureÅŸ region, northern Romania, in the North of Transylvania with the capital city at Baia Mare (population: 149,735). ... This article is about work. ... Lester B. Pearson after accepting the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ... The Presidential Medal of Freedom The Presidential Medal of Freedom is one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States and is bestowed by the President of the United States (the other award which is considered its equivalent is the Congressional Gold Medal, which is bestowed by an... Congressional Gold Medal presented to Navajo Code talkers in 2000 The Congressional Gold Medal should not be confused with the Medal of Honor (commonly called the Congressional Medal of Honor), which is also awarded by Congress, but only to military members as the highest military decoration of the United States. ... is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Nobel Prizes (pronounced no-BELL or no-bell) are awarded annually to people who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society. ... For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation). ... Night is a work by Elie Wiesel based on his experience, as a young Orthodox Jew, of being sent with his family to the German death camp at Auschwitz, and later to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. ...

Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a "messenger to mankind," noting that through his struggle to come to terms with "his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler's death camps," as well as his "practical work in the cause of peace," Wiesel has delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity.^[2] Lester B. Pearson after accepting the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ... The Norwegian Nobel Committee (Den norske Nobelkomité) awards the Nobel Peace Prize each year. ... Hitler redirects here. ...

Wiesel was born in Sighet, (now Sighetu Marmaţiei), Maramureş, Kingdom of Romania, to Shlomo and Sars Wiesel. Sarah was the daughter of Dodye Feig, a Hasid and farmer from a nearby village. Elie Wiesel had three sisters: Hilda and Bea, who were older than he, and Tzipora, who was the youngest in the family. Shlomo was an Orthodox Jew of Hungarian descent, and a shopkeeper who ran his own grocery store. He was active and trusted within the community, and had spent a few months in jail for having helped Polish Jews who escaped and was hungry in the early years of her life. It was Shlomo who instilled a strong sense of humanism in his son, encouraging him to learn Modern Hebrew and to read literature, whereas his mother encouraged him to study Torah and Kabbalah. Wiesel has said his father represented reason, and his mother, faith (Fine 1982:4). Location of Sighetu MarmaÅ£iei in Romania Location of Sighetu MarmaÅ£iei in MaramureÅŸ Coordinates: , Country County Status Municipality Government  - Mayor Eugenia Godja (Social Democratic Party) Population (2002)  - Total 44,185 Time zone EET (UTC+2)  - Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3) Website: http://www. ... Facts Development region: Nord-Vest Historic region: Transylvania Capital city: Baia Mare Population:  â€¢ As of 2002:  â€¢ Population density: 510,110 81/km² Area: 6,304 km² Codes:  â€¢ Car numbers  â€¢ ISO 3166-2:RO MM RO-MM Telephone code: (+40) x62 (1) Web:   County Council Prefecture 1. ... From 1859 to 1877, Romania evolved from a personal union of two vassal principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia) under a single prince to a full-fledged independent kingdom with a Hohenzollern monarchy. ... This article is about the Hasidic movement originating in Poland and Russia. ... Orthodox Judaism is the formulation of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonised in the Talmudic texts (Oral Torah) and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim. ... The history of the Jews in Poland reaches back over a millennium. ... Humanism is a broad category of ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appeal to universal human qualities — particularly rationality. ... Hebrew redirects here. ... Template:Jews and Jewdaism Template:The Holy Book Named TorRah The Torah () is the most valuable Holy Doctrine within Judaism,(and for muslims) revered as the first relenting Word of Ulllah, traditionally thought to have been revealed to Blessed Moosah, An Apostle of Ulllah. ... This article is about traditional Jewish Kabbalah. ...

The town of Sighet was re-annexed to Hungary. In 1944 Elie, his family and the rest of the town were placed in one of the two ghettos in Sighet. Elie and his family lived in the larger of the two, on Serpent Street. On May 16, 1944, the Hungarian authorities deported the Jewish community in Sighet to Auschwitz – Birkenau. While at Auschwitz, the number A-7713 was tattooed into his left arm. Wiesel was separated from his mother and sister Tzipora, who are presumed to have been murdered at Auschwitz. Wiesel and his father were sent to the attached work camp Buna-Werke, a subcamp of Auschwitz III Monowitz. He managed to remain with his father for a year as they were forced to work under appalling conditions and shuffled between concentration camps in the closing days of the war. On January 29, 1945, just a few weeks after the two were marched to Buchenwald and only months before the camp was liberated by the American Third Army on April 11, Wiesel's father suffered from dysentery, starvation, and exhaustion, and was later sent to the crematory. The last word his father spoke was "Eliezer”, Elie's name.^[3] The Second Vienna Award was the second of two Vienna Awards. ... is the 136th day of the year (137th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Deportation is the expelling of someone from a country. ... Auschwitz (Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) was the largest of the Nazi German concentration camps. ... Auschwitz (Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) was the largest of the Nazi German concentration camps. ... is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Buchenwald is the German for beech forest. A koolio forest in the hill range Elm (Höhenzug Elm), in the Helmstedt and Wolfenbüttel districts, Lower Saxony A German name for a Hungarian region Bakony Forest (Hungarian: , German: ) A Nazi concentration camp in Germany (German: ); See Buchenwald concentration camp Buchenwald... Shoulder Sleeve Insignia of the U.S. Third Army. ... is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Dysentery (formerly known as flux or the bloody flux) is frequent, small-volume, severe diarrhea that shows blood in the feces along with intestinal cramping and tenesmus (painful straining to pass stool). ... This article is about extreme malnutrition. ... Fatigue is a feeling of excessive tiredness or lethargy, with a desire to rest, perhaps to sleep. ...

After the war

After the war, Wiesel was placed in a French orphanage, where he learned the French language and was reunited with both his older sisters, Hilda and Bea, who had also survived the war. In 1948, Wiesel began studying philosophy at the Sorbonne. // An orphanage is an institution or asylum for the care of a child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living. ... French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ... For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ... The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The historic University of Paris (French: ) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was in 1970 reorganised as 13 autonomous universities (University of Paris I–XIII). ...

He taught Hebrew and worked as a choirmaster before becoming a professional journalist. He wrote for Israeli and French newspapers, including Tsien in Kamf (in Yiddish) and the French Jewish Magazine, L'arche. However, for 10 years after the war, Wiesel refused to write about or discuss his experiences during the Holocaust. Like many survivors, Wiesel could not find the words to describe his experiences. However, a meeting with François Mauriac, the 1952 Nobel Laureate in Literature, who eventually became Wiesel's close friend, persuaded him to write about his Holocaust experiences. Hebrew redirects here. ... Yiddish ( yidish or idish, literally: Jewish) is a non-territorial Germanic language, spoken throughout the world and written with the Hebrew alphabet. ... François Mauriac (October 11, 1885 – September 1, 1970) was a French author, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. ... Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... René-François-Armand Prudhomme (1839–1907), a French poet and essayist, was the first person to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1901, in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart...

Wiesel first wrote the 900-page tome Un di velt hot geshvign (And the World Remained Silent), in Yiddish, which was published in abridged form in Buenos Aires. Wiesel rewrote a shortened version of the manuscript in French, and it was published as the 127-page novella La Nuit, and later translated into English as Night. Even with Mauriac's support, Wiesel had trouble finding a publisher for his book, and initially it sold few copies. Yiddish (ייִדיש, Jiddisch) is a Germanic language spoken by about four million Jews throughout the world. ... For other uses, see Buenos Aires (disambiguation). ... Night is an autobiographical work by Elie Wiesel based on his experience, as a young Orthodox Jew, of being sent with his family to the German death camp at Auschwitz, and later to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ...

Life in the United States

The house where Elie Wiesel was born

In 1955, Wiesel moved to New York City, having become a U.S. citizen: due to injuries suffered in a traffic accident, he was forced to stay in New York past his visa's expiration and was offered citizenship to resolve his status. In the U.S., Wiesel wrote over 40 books, both fiction and non-fiction, and won many literary prizes. Wiesel's writing is considered among the most important in Holocaust literature. Some historians credit Wiesel with giving the term 'Holocaust' its present meaning, but he does not feel that the word adequately describes the event and wishes it were used less frequently to describe significant occurrences as everyday tragedies (Wiesel:1999, 18). Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixel, file size: 1. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Problems playing the files? See media help. ...

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for speaking out against violence, repression, and racism. He has received many other prizes and honors for his work, including the Congressional Gold Medal in 1985, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1996. He is also the recipient of The International Center in New York's Award of Excellence. Wiesel has published two volumes of his memoirs. The first, All Rivers Run to the Sea, was published in 1994 and covered his life up to the year 1969 while the second, titled And the Sea is Never Full and published in 1999, covered 1969 to 1999. Lester B. Pearson after accepting the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ... Congressional Gold Medal presented to Navajo Code talkers in 2000 The Congressional Gold Medal should not be confused with the Medal of Honor (commonly called the Congressional Medal of Honor), which is also awarded by Congress, but only to military members as the highest military decoration of the United States. ... American Academy of Arts and Letters is an organization whose goal is to foster, assist, and sustain an interest in American literature, music, and art. ... A memoir, as a literary genre, forms a sub-class of autobiography. ...

Wiesel and his wife, Marion, started the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. He served as chairman for the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust (later renamed U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council) from 1978 to 1986, spearheading the building of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Interior of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Exterior of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum viewed from Raoul Wallenberg Place (15th St. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United...

Wiesel addressing the United States Congress.

Wiesel is particularly fond of teaching and holds the position of Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Boston University. From 1972 to 1976, Wiesel was a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York and member of the American Federation of Teachers. In 1982 he served as the first Henry Luce Visiting Scholar in Humanities and Social Thought at Yale University. He also co-instructs Winter Term (January) courses at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida. From 1997 to 1999 he was Ingeborg Rennert Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies at Barnard College. Elie Wiesel writer and spokesman on Holocaust issues addresses the US Congress File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Elie Wiesel writer and spokesman on Holocaust issues addresses the US Congress File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Type Bicameral Houses Senate House of Representatives President of the Senate President pro tempore Dick Cheney, (R) since January 20, 2001 Robert C. Byrd, (D) since January 4, 2007 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, (D) since January 4, 2007 Members 535 plus 4 Delegates and 1 Resident Commissioner Political... Mellon portrait Andrew William Mellon (March 24, 1855–August 27, 1937) was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932. ... For other uses, see Humanities (disambiguation). ... For the similarly named institution in Chestnut Hill, see Boston College. ... The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym pronounced ), is the public university system of New York City. ... The American Federation of Teachers or AFT is an American labor union founded in 1916 which represents teachers; paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; local, state and federal employees; higher education faculty and staff; and nurses and other healthcare professionals. ... Luce with wife Clare Boothe Luce (1954) Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an influential American publisher. ... Yale redirects here. ... Eckerd College is a private 4-year coeducational liberal arts college at the southernmost tip of St. ... For other uses, see St. ... Jewish studies also known as Judaic studies is a subject area of study available at many colleges and universities in the Western World. ... Barnard College, founded in 1889, is one of the four undergraduate divisions of Columbia University. ...

Wiesel has become a popular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust. As a political activist, he has advocated for many causes, including Israel, the plight of Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, the victims of apartheid in South Africa, Argentina's Desaparecidos, Bosnian victims of genocide in the former Yugoslavia, Nicaragua's Miskito Indians, and the Kurds. He recently voiced support for intervention in Darfur, Sudan.^[4] He also led a commission organized by the Romanian government to research and write a report, released in 2004, on the true history of the Holocaust in Romania and the involvement of the Romanian wartime regime in atrocities against Jews and other groups, including the Roma. The Romanian government accepted the findings in the report and committed to implementing the commission's recommendations for educating the public on the history of the Holocaust in Romania. The commission, formally called the International Commission for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, came to be called the Wiesel Commission in honor of his leadership. Activism, in a general sense, can be described as involvement in action to bring about change, be it social, political, environmental, or other change. ... Historical background As waves of anti-Jewish pogroms and expulsions from the countries of Western Europe marked the last centuries of the Middle Ages, a sizable portion of the Jewish populations there moved to the more tolerant countries of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the Middle East. ... The Beta Israel (Geez ቤተ፡ እስራኤል Bēta Isrāēl, modern Bēte Isrāēl; ‎), also known by the term Falasha (Amharic for Exiles or Strangers, as they were called by non-Jewish Ethiopians — a term that is considered pejorative) are Jews of Ethiopian origin. ... A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. ... Desaparecidos means literally the disappeared in Spanish, and is a reference to people who were arrested, often illegally, by various South American military governments and then vanished. ... For other uses, see Genocide (disambiguation). ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in the Latin alphabet, Југославија in Cyrillic; English: South Slavia, or literary The Land of South Slavs) describes three political entities that existed one at a time on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century. ... For other uses, see Mosquito (disambiguation). ... Kurds are one of the Iranian peoples and speak Kurdish, a north-Western Iranian language related to Persian. ... For other uses, see Darfur (disambiguation). ... Language(s) Romani, languages of native region Religion(s) Romanipen, combined with assimilations from local religions Related ethnic groups South Asians (Desi) This article is about the Indo-Aryan ethnic group. ... The Wiesel Commission is the common name given to the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania, which was established by former President Ion Iliescu in October 2003 to research and create a report on the actual history of the Holocaust in Romania and make specific recommendations for educating the...

Wiesel is the honorary chair of the Habonim Dror Camp Miriam Campership and Building Fund, and a member of the International Council of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation. The Habonim Dror Emblem (known as its Semel / סמל). Habonim Dror (Hebrew: הבונים דרור; Translation: The Freedom Builders (more popularly The Builders of Freedom) is a Socialist-Zionist youth movement formed by the merger in 1982 of the Habonim and Dror youth movements. ... Human Rights Foundation logo. ...

On March 27, 2001, Wiesel appeared at the University of Florida for Jewish Awareness Month and was presented with an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the University of Florida by Dr. Charles Young.^[5] is the 86th day of the year (87th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ...

In 2002^[6], he inaugurated the Elie Wiesel Memorial House in Sighet in his childhood home.

Recent years

In 1998 Wiesel gave the convocation speech at Appalachian State University. The money paid for his appereance covered costs of travel and the rest went to his various charitable institutions. Appalachian State University is a public university located in Boone, North Carolina and the sixth largest institution in the University of North Carolina system. ...

In early 2006, Wiesel traveled to Auschwitz with Oprah Winfrey, a visit which was broadcast as part of The Oprah Winfrey Show on May 24, 2006.^[7] Wiesel said that this would most likely be his last trip there. Auschwitz (Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) was the largest of the Nazi German concentration camps. ... Oprah Winfrey, (born January 29, 1954) is a multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history. ... The Oprah Winfrey Show (also known as Oprah) is a United States syndicated talk show, hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey, and is the highest-rated talk show in American television history. ... is the 144th day of the year (145th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In September 2006, he appeared before the UN Security Council with actor George Clooney to call attention to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. A session of the Security Council in progress The United Nations Security Council is the most powerful organ of the United Nations. ... George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, who gained fame as one of the lead doctors in the long-running television drama, ER (1994–99), as Anthony Edwardss characters best friend and partner... For other uses, see Darfur (disambiguation). ...

On November 30, 2006 Wiesel received an honorary knighthood in London in recognition of his work toward raising Holocaust education in the United Kingdom.^[8] is the 334th day of the year (335th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The British honours system is a means of rewarding individuals personal bravery, achievement or service to the United Kingdom. ...

On February 1, 2007, Wiesel was attacked in a San Francisco hotel. Twenty-two year old Eric Hunt confessed on an antisemitic website to the attack, saying he had tried to drag Wiesel out of the hotel elevator in order to "bring [him] to my hotel room where he would truthfully answer my questions regarding the fact that his non-fiction Holocaust memoir, Night, is almost entirely fictitious."^[9] On February 17, 2007, Hunt was arrested in Montgomery Township, New Jersey. He faces charges that include attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, elder abuse, stalking, battery and the commission of a hate crime.^[10] is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Eric Hunt is a Holocaust denier from Vernon Township, New Jersey. ... Night is a work by Elie Wiesel based on his experience, as a young Orthodox Jew, of being sent with his family to the German death camp at Auschwitz, and later to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. ... is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... Montgomery Township is a township located in Somerset County, New Jersey. ... False imprisonment is a tort, and possibly a crime, wherein a person is intentionally confined without legal authority. ... Elder abuse is often defined as a single, or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust which causes harm or distress to an older person. ... Stalking means criminally following or similarly harassing a person over an extended period. ... At common law, battery is the tort of intentionally (or, in Australia, negligently) and volitionally bringing about an unconsented harmful or offensive contact with a person or to something closely associated with them (i. ... A Jewish cemetery in France after being defaced by Neo-Nazis. ...

On April 25, 2007, Wiesel was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters degree from the University of Vermont. is the 115th day of the year (116th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... UVM redirects here. ...

During the early 2007 selection process for the Kadima candidate for President of Israel, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reportedly offered Wiesel the nomination (and, as the ruling-party candidate and an apolitical figure, likely the Presidency), but Wiesel "was not very interested".^[11] Shimon Peres was chosen as the Kadima candidate (and later President) instead. Kadima (Hebrew: קדימה, Forward) is a political party in Israel. ... The President of the State of Israel (‎, Nesi HaMedina, lit. ... The Prime Minister of Israel (Hebrew: ראש הממשלה, Rosh HaMemshala, lit. ... Ehud Olmert (‎; Arabic: ‎; pronounced , born 30 September 1945) is the twelfth and current Prime Minister of Israel. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

On April 9, 2008, Wiesel was presented with an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters at the City College of New York.

Criticism

Wiesel has been criticized for exhibiting uncritical moral support for the state of Israel, and for the manner in which he defends this position. Christopher Hitchens has condemned him as a "contemptible poseur and windbag".^[12] Hitchens suggests that Wiesel was associated with the militant Zionist organization Irgun in the 1940s, an organization that "employed extreme violence against Arab civilians".^[12] Hitchens also has attacked Wiesel for failing to condemn promptly the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Hitchens suggests that Wiesel refrained from condemning the massacre because he was reluctant to criticize Israel.^[12] Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949) is a British-American author, journalist and literary critic. ... Irgun emblem. ... The Sabra and Shatila massacre (or Sabra and Chatila massacre; Arabic: مذبحة صبرا وشاتيلا) was an attack carried out in September 1982 by a Lebanese Forces militia group against Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. ...

Noam Chomsky also criticized Wiesel's response to the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Chomsky suggests that Wiesel attempted to excuse Israeli responsibility in the massacre by emphasizing "after all the Israeli soldiers did not kill"; Chomsky suggests that Wiesel's real concern in regards to the Sabra and Shatila massacre is that it reflects badly on Israel.^[13] Chomsky notes that Israeli troops participated in much killing in their own right, suggesting that Wiesel views Israel as "basically exempt from criticism".^[13] Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. ...

In a radio interview scholar Norman Finkelstein accused Wiesel of cheapening the moral coinage of the Nazi Holocaust by asserting its uniqueness while profiting from public fascination with it: For other uses, see Norman Finkelstein (disambiguation). ...

Elie Wiesel is always wheeled out, and with his long face and anguished heart and cinematic eyes, he always says: "Oh, do not compare." I beg your pardon, I think you should compare. Otherwise, if you don't want to compare, what's the point of it? What are you going to learn from it? ... He says the only thing we can do before the Nazi Holocaust is silence. Well if silence is the only answer, why are you charging $25,000 a lecture? And what are you going to learn from silence? I mean, this is sheer nonsense.^[14]

Books

ISBNs may be of reissues or reprints. Most are paperback.

• Un di velt hot geshvign (Tsentral-Farband fun Poylishe Yidn in Argentine, 1956) ISBN 0-374-52140-9; includes the following 3 books:
  • Night (Hill and Wang 1958; 2006) ISBN 0-553-27253-5
  • Dawn (Hill and Wang 1961; 2006) ISBN 0-553-22536-7
  • Day, previously titled "The Accident" (Hill and Wang 1962; 2006) ISBN 0-553-58170-8
• The Town Beyond the Wall (Atheneum 1964)
• The Gates of the Forest (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1966)
• The Jews of Silence (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1966) ISBN 0-935613-01-3
• Legends of our Time (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1968)
• A Beggar in Jerusalem (Random House 1970)
• One Generation After (Random House 1970)
• Souls on Fire (Random House 1972) ISBN 0-671-44171-X
• Night Trilogy (Hill and Wang 1972)
• The Oath (Random House 1973) ISBN 0-935613-11-0
• Ani Maamin (Random House 1973)
• Zalmen, or the Madness of God (Random House 1974)
• Messengers of God (Random House 1976) ISBN 0-671-54134-X
• A Jew Today (Random House 1978) ISBN 0-935613-15-3
• Four Hasidic Masters (University of Notre Dame Press 1978)
• Images from the Bible (The Overlook Press 1980)
• The Trial of God (Random House 1979)
• The Testament (Summit 1981)
• Five Biblical Portraits (University of Notre Dame Press 1981)
• Somewhere a Master (Summit 1982)
• The Golem (illustrated by Mark Podwal) (Summit 1983) ISBN 0-671-49624-7
• The Fifth Son (Summit 1985)
• Against Silence (Holocaust Library 1985)
• Twilight (Summit 1988)
• The Six Days of Destruction (co-author Albert Friedlander, illustrated by Mark Podwal) (Paulist Press 1988)
• A Journey of Faith (Donald I. Fine 1990)
• From the Kingdom of Memory (Summit 1990)
• Evil and Exile (University of Notre Dame Press 1990)
• Sages and Dreamers (Summit 1991)
• The Forgotten (Summit 1992) ISBN 0-8052-1019-9
• A Passover Haggadah (illustrated by Mark Podwal) (Simon and Schuster 1993) ISBN 0-671-73541-1
• All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, Vol. I, 1928-1969 (Knopf 1995) ISBN 0-8052-1028-8
• Memoir in Two Voices, with François Mitterrand (Arcade 1996)
• And the Sea is Never Full: Memoirs Vol. II, 1969 (Knopf 1999) ISBN 0-8052-1029-6
• King Solomon and his Magic Ring (illustrated by Mark Podwal) (Greenwillow 1999)
• Conversations with Elie Wiesel (Schocken 2001)
• The Judges (Knopf 2002)
• Wise Men and Their Tales (Schocken 2003) ISBN 0-8052-4173-6
• The Time of the Uprooted (Knopf 2005)

Night is an autobiographical work by Elie Wiesel based on his experience, as a young Orthodox Jew, of being sent with his family to the German death camp at Auschwitz, and later to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. ... Dawn is a book by Elie Wiesel published in 1961. ... Day, originally published in 1962 as The Accident is the third book by Elie Wiesel. ... The Gates of the Forest is a 1966 book written by Elie Wiesel. ... The Oath is the English title of Le serment de Kolvillag, by Elie Wiesel. ... Hasidic Judaism (Hebrew: Chasidut חסידות) is a Haredi Jewish religious movement. ... For other uses, see Golem (disambiguation). ... MARK PODWAL (born June 8, 1945) is an artist, author and physician. ... Albert H(oschander). ... MARK PODWAL (born June 8, 1945) is an artist, author and physician. ... The Forgotten is a novel by Elie Wiesel, published in 1992. ... Haggadah for Passover, 14th century Haggadah in Hebrew means Telling. ... MARK PODWAL (born June 8, 1945) is an artist, author and physician. ...   IPA: (October 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996) served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the Socialist Party (PS). ... MARK PODWAL (born June 8, 1945) is an artist, author and physician. ...

See also

• The Boys of Buchenwald – A documentary about the orphanage in which he stayed after the Holocaust

The Boys of Buchenwald is a documentary made in 2002 by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady that examines how the child survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp had to assimilate themselves back into normal society after having experienced the brutality of the Holocaust. ...

Notes

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References

• Berenbaum, Michael: The Vision of the Void. Theological Reflections on the Works of Elie Wiesel, Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1979 ISBN 0-8195-6189-4 PA
• Fonseca, Isabel: Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey, London, Vintage, 1996
• Elie Wiesel: First Person Singular PBS special on Elie Wiesel
• Text and audio of Elie Wiesel's famous speech on "The Perils of Indifference"
• 1988 Audio Interview with Elie Wiesel by Don Swaim of CBS Radio, RealAudio at Wired for Books.
• Christopher Hitchens criticizes Elie Wiesel in the Nation Magazine
• "8 Questions for Elie Wiesel", JEWSWEEK article briefly discussing Wiesel's view regarding the moral necessity of the Iraq War.
• Fine, Ellen S. Legacy of Night: The Literary Universe of Elie Wiesel. State University of New York Press, 1982. ISBN 0-87395-590-0 (paperback)
• Wiesel, Elie. All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs. New York: Knopf, 1995.
• Wiesel, Elie. And the Sea is Never Full: Memoirs 1969-. New York: Schocken, 1999.
• New York Times - The Conversation with Elie Wiesel
• "Elie Wiesel on his Beliefs" ~ Toronto Star

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External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:

Elie Wiesel

• Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Elie Wiesel from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Text and Audio of Wiesel's "Perils of Indifference" Speech
• Ubben Lecture at DePauw University
• Video of Ethics After the Holocaust speech
• Author attacked in S.F. hotel
• Profile of Elie Wiesel at findingDulcinea 12/13/07, with collection of interviews, videos, and Q&As