Did Elie Wiesel Ever Become Jewish Again

Elie Wiesel
Wiesel speaking in Washington, DC, January 2009
Born	Eliezer Wiesel September thirty, 1928 (1928-09-30) (historic period 93) Sighet, Maramureş County, Romania
Occupation	Political activist, professor, novelist
Notable accolade(s)	Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Liberty, Congressional Gilded Medal

Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE (born September 30, 1928)^[i] is a writer, professor at Boston University, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the writer of 57 books, the best known of which is Night, a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps. His diverse range of other writings offer powerful and poetic contributions to literature, theology, and his ain joint of Jewish spirituality today.

When 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 ain personal feel of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler's decease camps," as well every bit his "practical work in the cause of peace," Wiesel had delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human nobility" to humanity.^[ii]

Contents

• one Early life
• ii World War Two
• 3 After the war
• 4 Life in the U.s.a.
• 5 Recent years
  • 5.i 2007 Attack on Wiesel
  • v.ii Criticism
• 6 Philanthropy
• 7 Works
• 8 See also
• 9 Notes
• 10 References
• eleven External links

Early on life

Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, a trivial town in Transylvania, (now Sighetu Marmaţiei), Maramureş, Kingdom of Romania, in the Carpathian Mountains. His mother, Sarah Frig, was the daughter of Dodye Feig, a historic Vizhnitz Hasid and farmer from a nearby village. His father, Shlomo Wiesel, 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 in the early years of his life had spent a few months in jail for having helped Smoothen Jews who escaped and were hungry. It was Sholomo 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 the Torah and Kabbalah. Wiesel has said his father represented reason, and his mother Sarah promoted faith (Fine 1982:iv). Elie Wiesel had 3 sisters – older sisters Hilda and Beatrice, and younger sister Tzipora. Beatrice and Hilda survived the war and were reunited with Elie at a French orphanage. They eventually emigrated to N America, with Beatrice moving to Montréal, Canada. Unfortunately, Tzipora, Sholomo and Sarah did not survive the state of war.

Globe War Two

Buchenwald, 1945. Wiesel is on the second row from the lesser, seventh from the left.

In 1940 Romania lost the town of Sighet following the Second Vienna Accolade. In 1944 Elie, his family and the remainder of the town were placed in 1 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 regime allowed the German ground forces to deport the Jewish community in Sighet to Auschwitz Birkenau. While at Auschwitz, his inmate number, "A-7713", was tattooed onto his left arm. Wiesel was separated from his mother and sister Tzipora, who are presumed to accept died 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 over eight months every bit they were forced to work nether appalling weather and shuffled between 3 concentration camps in the closing days of the state of war. On January 29, 1945, just a few weeks after the two were marched to Buchenwald, Wiesel's father died from dysentery, starvation, and burnout, and was afterward sent to the crematorium, but months before the camp was liberated by the American Third Ground forces on Apr eleven.^[3] His total time spent in concentration camps was less than 11 months.

Subsequently the war

After Globe War Ii, Wiesel taught Hebrew and worked every bit a choirmaster before becoming a professional journalist. He wrote for Israeli and French newspapers, including Tsien in Kamf (in Yiddish) L'arche . However, for x years afterwards the war, Wiesel refused to write about or hash out his experiences during the Holocaust. Like many survivors, Wiesel could not find the words to depict his experiences. However, a coming together with François Mauriac, the 1952 Nobel Laureate in Literature, who eventually became Wiesel's close friend, persuaded him to write virtually his experiences. Wiesel first wrote the 900-page memoir Un di velt hot geshvign (And the World Remained Silent), in Yiddish, which was published in abridged form in Buenos Aires.^[iv] Wiesel rewrote a shortened version of the manuscript in French, and it was published as the 127-page La Nuit, and subsequently translated into English as Night. Fifty-fifty with Mauriac's support, Wiesel had problem finding a publisher for his book, and initially it sold few copies.

In 1960, Arthur Wang of Hill & Wang agreed to pay a $100 pro-forma advance, and published it in the US in September that year as Night. It sold just 1,046 copies over the adjacent 18 months, but attracted interest from reviewers, leading to tv interviews with Wiesel and meetings with literary figures like Saul Bellow. "The English translation came out in 1960, and the starting time printing was three,000 copies," Wiesel said in an interview. "And it took three years to sell them. At present, I get 100 letters a month from children about the volume. And at that place are many, many one thousand thousand copies in impress." The 1979 volume and play The Trial of God is said to have been based on Wiesel's real life Auschwitz experience of witnessing iii Jews who, close to decease, comport a trial against God, under the accusation that He has been oppressive of the Jewish people.

"Nighttime" has been translated into 30 languages. By 1997, the book was selling 300,000 copies annually in the United States lone. By March 2006, about six million copies were sold in the Usa. On January 16, 2006, Oprah Winfrey chose the piece of work for her book club. One million actress paperback and 150,000 hardcover copies were printed conveying the "Oprah's Volume Club" logo, with a new translation by Wiesel'southward wife, Marion, and a new preface by Wiesel. On February xiii, 2006, Night was no. ane on The New York Times bestseller list for paperback non-fiction.

Life in the United States

The house where Elie Wiesel was born

In 1955, Wiesel moved to New York City, having become a The states denizen: due to injuries suffered in a traffic blow, he was forced to stay in New York past his visa's expiration and was offered citizenship to resolve his status. In the Usa, Wiesel wrote over twoscore books, both fiction and not-fiction, and won many literary prizes. Wiesel's writing is considered amidst the nearly important in Holocaust literature. Some historians credit Wiesel with giving the term 'Holocaust' its nowadays meaning, but he does not experience that the word adequately describes the event and wishes information technology were used less frequently to draw significant occurrences as everyday tragedies (Wiesel:1999, 18). He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for speaking out against violence, repression, and racism. He has received many other prizes and honors for his work, including the Congressional Aureate Medal in 1985, the Presidential Medal of Liberty, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1996. He currently lives in Boston, where he is a professor of humanities at Boston University.

Wiesel also played a role in the initial success of The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski by endorsing it prior to revelations that the book was fiction and, in the sense that it was presented as all Kosinski'due south true experience, a hoax.

He is likewise the recipient of The International Centre in New York'southward Award of Excellence. Wiesel has published ii volumes of his memoirs. The first, All Rivers Run to the Body of water, 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. Wiesel and his wife, Marion, started the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. He served as chairman for the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust (subsequently renamed U.s. Holocaust Memorial Council) from 1978 to 1986, spearheading the building of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

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Wiesel addressing the United States Congress.

Wiesel is particularly fond of instruction and holds the position of Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Boston Academy. From 1972 to 1976, Wiesel was a Distinguished Professor at the City Academy of New York and member of the American Federation of Teachers. In 1982 he served every bit the first Henry Luce Visiting Scholar in Humanities and Social Thought at Yale Academy. He too co-instructs Winter Term (January) courses at Eckerd College, Leningrad, Florida. From 1997 to 1999 he was Ingeborg Rennert Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies at Barnard Higher.

Wiesel has become a popular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust. As a political activist, he has advocated for many causes, including State of israel, the plight of Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, the victims of apartheid in Southward Africa, Argentine republic'southward Desaparecidos , Bosnian victims of genocide in the former Yugoslavia, Nicaragua's Miskito Indians, and the Kurds. Conversely, he withdrew from his role equally chair of the International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, and made efforts to arrest the conference, in deference to Israeli objection to the inclusion of sessions on the Armenian genocide.^{[5] [half-dozen]}

He recently voiced support for intervention in Darfur, Sudan.^[vii] He too led a commission organized by the Romanian government to research and write a study, released in 2004, on the truthful history of the Holocaust in Romania and the involvement of the Romanian wartime government 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 chosen the Wiesel Commission in award of his leadership. Wiesel is the honorary chair of the Habonim Dror Camp Miriam Campership and Building Fund, and a member of the International Quango of the New York-based Man Rights Foundation. On March 27, 2001, Wiesel appeared at the University of Florida for Jewish Awareness Month and was presented with an honorary doctor of humane messages caste from the University of Florida by Dr. Charles Immature.^[viii] In 2002, he inaugurated the Elie Wiesel Memorial House in Sighet in his childhood home.^[9]

Recent years

In early on 2006, Wiesel traveled to Auschwitz with Oprah Winfrey, a visit which was broadcast as office of The Oprah Winfrey Show on May 24, 2006.^[10] Wiesel said that this would most likely be his last trip in that location. In September 2006, he appeared before the United nations Security Quango with actor George Clooney to telephone call attending to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. On November 30, 2006 Wiesel received an honorary knighthood in London in recognition of his work toward raising Holocaust education in the United Kingdom.^[11] On April 25, 2007, Wiesel was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters degree from the Academy of Vermont. During the early 2007 selection process for the Kadima candidate for President of Israel, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reportedly offered Wiesel the nomination (and, equally the ruling-party candidate and an apolitical figure, likely the Presidency), but Wiesel "was not very interested."^[12] Shimon Peres was chosen every bit the Kadima candidate (and later President) instead. In 2007, Elie Wiesel was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Accomplishment Award.^[thirteen] On Apr 9, 2008, Wiesel was presented with an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters at the City College of New York.

In 2007 the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity issued a letter condemning Armenian genocide denial that was signed past 53 Nobel laureates including Wiesel. Wiesel has repeatedly chosen Turkey's 90-year-old campaign to cover upward the Armenian genocide a double killing, since it strives to impale the memory of the original atrocities.^[xiv]

On September 29, 2008, the Rochester Higher President Rubel Shelly, on its 50th anniversary, bestowed Wiesel with a plaque conferring on him equally an honorary visiting professor of humanities.^[fifteen]

On November 17, 2008, he received an honorary doctorate from the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, State of israel.^[xvi]

In 2009, Wiesel criticized the Vatican over its lifting of the excommunication of controversial bishop Richard Williamson, a member of the Society of Saint Pius X.^[17]

In December 2008, the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity issued a press release^[18] stating that nearly all of the foundation's avails (approximately $15.ii million USD) had been lost through Bernard Madoff's investment business firm.^[19]

At a Conde Nast roundtable, Wiesel spoke most losing his entire life savings to Bernard Madoff's ponzi scheme.

On June 5, 2009, Wiesel accompanied The states President Barack Obama and German language Chancellor Angela Merkel every bit they toured Buchenwald.^[20] Merkel, Obama, and Wiesel each spoke near Buchenwald in personal terms, with Obama speaking of his great uncle liberating an outlying camp, Merkel considering the responsibleness of Germans vis-à-vis National Socialist history, and Wiesel reflecting on the suffering and death of his father in the camp.^[20]

Wiesel returned to Hungary for the first official visit since the Holocaust betwixt December 9-xi, 2009 by the invitation of Rabbi Slomó Köves, executive rabbi of the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation and the Hungarian branch of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. During his visit Wiesel participated in a conference at the Upper Business firm Sleeping room of the Hungarian Parliament, met Prime Government minister Gordon Bajnai and President László Sólyom and fabricated a speech to the approximately ten chiliad participants of a major anti racist gathering held in Organized religion Hall. The spoken language was broadcasted live by Magyar ATV, a nationwide television set aqueduct.[1][ii][three]

2007 Set on on Wiesel

On February 1, 2007, Wiesel was attacked in a San Francisco hotel past 22-twelvemonth-old Holocaust denier Eric Chase who tried to drag Wiesel into a hotel room. Wiesel was not injured and Hunt fled the scene. Later, Hunt bragged about the incident on a Holocaust deprival website. Approximately i month later, he was arrested and charged with multiple offenses.^{[21] [22]}

Chase was bedevilled on July 21, 2008,^{[22] [23]} and was sentenced to two years but was given credit for fourth dimension served and skillful behavior and was released on probation and ordered to undergo psychological handling. The jury convicted Hunt of three charges but dismissed the remaining charges of attempted kidnapping, stalking, and an boosted count of false imprisonment, amidst Hunt's withdrawal of his not guilty by reason of insanity plea.^{[24] [25]} District Attorney Kamala Harris said: "Crimes motivated by hate are among the most reprehensible of offenses ... This defendant has been made to answer for an unwarranted and biased attack on a human being who has dedicated his life to peace."^[26] At his sentencing hearing, Chase apologized and insisted that he no longer denies the Holocaust,^[27] notwithstanding he continues to maintain and update a blog which denies the Holocaust and is critical of prominent Jewish people.^[28]

Criticism

Wiesel is thoroughly criticised past Norman Finkelstein in his volume The Holocaust Industry . Finkelstein accuses Wiesel of promoting the "uniqueness doctrine" which holds, according to Finkelstein, the Holocaust as the paramount of evil and therefore historically incomparable to other genocides.^[29] In the volume Wiesel is likewise lambasted for playing down the importance of other genocides, especially the Turkish Holocaust on the Armenians, and thwarting efforts of raising awareness of the genocide of the Romani people executed by the Nazis. These claims are exemplified by Wiesel's lobbying for commemorating Jews alone (not the Romani people) in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington in addition to numerous Wiesel quotes on the "uniqueness of Holocaust"^[xxx]

Philanthropy

In 2004, Elie Weisel attended Activeness Against Hunger'south annual gala to present Nelson Mandela with the Action Confronting Hunger Humanitarian Accolade.^[31]

Works

• Un di velt hot geshvign (Tsentral-Farband fun Poylishe Yidn in Argentine, 1956) ISBN 0-374-52140-9; (first version of Night)
• Night (Hill and Wang 1958; 2006) ISBN 0-553-27253-v (Personal account of the Holocaust)
• Dawn (Hill and Wang 1961; 2006) ISBN 0-553-22536-7
• Day , previously titled "The Blow" (Colina and Wang 1962; 2006) ISBN 0-553-58170-8
• The Boondocks Beyond the Wall (Atheneum 1964)
• The Gates of the Woods (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)(Artistically depicted memories)
• A Beggar in Jerusalem (Random House 1970)(Novel)
• One Generation Later (Random House 1970)
• Souls on Burn (Random House 1972) ISBN 0-671-44171-X (Kickoff volume of portraits and legends of Hasidic Masters: many of the almost famous)
• Night Trilogy (Hill and Wang 1972)
• The Oath (Random Firm 1973) ISBN 0-935613-11-0
• Ani Maamin (Random Business firm 1973)
• Zalmen, or the Madness of God (Random Business firm 1974)
• Messengers of God (Random House 1976) ISBN 0-671-54134-X (Biblical portraits)
• A Jew Today (Random House 1978) ISBN 0-935613-15-3 (Essays and imaginative works on Jewish identity)
• Four Hasidic Masters-and their struggle against melancholy (University of Notre Dame Press 1978)(Portraits of Hasidic Masters)
• Images from the Bible (The Overlook Printing 1980)
• The Trial of God (Random House 1979)(Play)
• The Testament (Summit 1981)
• 5 Biblical Portraits (University of Notre Dame Printing 1981)(Biblical figures reinterpreted)
• Somewhere a Master (Further Hasidic portraits, after "Souls on Fire") (Superlative 1982)
• The Golem (illustrated by Marking Podwal) (Top 1983) ISBN 0-671-49624-vii (Children's volume on the Jewish legend)
• The Fifth Son (Height 1985)
• Against Silence (Holocaust Library 1985)
• Twilight (Summit 1988)
• The Six Days of Destruction (co-writer Albert Friedlander, illustrated by Marking Podwal) (Paulist Press 1988)
• A Journeying of Religion (Donald I. Fine 1990)
• From the Kingdom of Memory (Summit 1990)(essays and depictions after "A Jew Today")
• Evil and Exile (University of Notre Dame Printing 1990)
• Sages and Dreamers (Elevation 1991)(Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic and Hasidic figures)
• The Forgotten (Summit 1992) ISBN 0-8052-1019-9
• A Passover Haggadah (illustrated past Mark Podwal) (Simon and Schuster 1993) ISBN 0-671-73541-1 (Jewish liturgy)
• 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 Bounding main is Never Full: Memoirs Vol. 2, 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 (Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic and Hasidic figures) (Schocken 2003) ISBN 0-8052-4173-6
• The Fourth dimension of the Uprooted (Knopf 2005)
• A Mad Desire to Dance (2009)
• Rashi a biography (2009)

Additionally, every bit Elie Wiesel has offered a unique and poetic articulation of traditional Jewish idea and identity today, other books sometimes carry introductions or reviews from him:

• A Vanished World by Roman Vishniac, forward by Elie Wiesel (published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1986) ISBN 0374520232, ISBN 978-0374520236; archetype photographs of Eastern European Jewish life from the 1930s

Disquisitional assay and appreciation of Wiesel's position in the history of literature:

• Student Companion to Elie Wiesel (Educatee Companions to Classic Writers) Sanford Sternlicht (Greenwood Press, 2003) ISBN 0313325308, ISBN 978-0313325304 (Covers his personal and literary background, "Night", main novels, and i chapter on his most important not-fiction)

Meet besides

• The Boys of Buchenwald – A documentary about the orphanage in which he stayed afterward the Holocaust
• God on Trial – A 2008 joint BBC / WGBH Boston dramatisation of his volume The Trial of God, about a grouping of Auschwitz prisoners who identify God on trial for breaching his contract with the Jewish people.

Notes

1. ↑ Elie Wiesel from Encyclopædia Britannica
2. ↑ 1986 Nobel Peace Prize Press Release
3. ↑ see the film "Elie Wiesel Goes Abode" past Judit Elek, narrated by William Injure ISBN #ane-930545-63-0
4. ↑ Naomi Seidman, "Elie Wiesel and the Scandal of Jewish Rage," Jewish Social Studies three:one (Fall 1996), p. five.
5. ↑ Finkelstein, N.(2003) The Holocaust Industry, 2nd edition, p.69.
6. ↑ Peter Novick. The Holocaust in American Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. 373 pp.
7. ↑ Elie Wiesel: On the Atrocities in Sudan
8. ↑ Independent Florida Alligator article March 23, 2001
9. ↑ Elie Wiesel Returns to his Home in Sighet, Romania, Embassy of Romania in the U.s.a., 23 July 2002.
10. ↑ Press Release ~ Oprah.com
11. ↑ "Wiesel Receives Honorary Knighthood" ~ TotallyJewish.com
12. ↑ Olmert backs Peres as next president Jerusalem Mail service, 18 October 2006
13. ↑ Dayton awards 2007 peace prizes
14. ↑ State of Denial: Turkey Spends Millions to Embrace Up Armenian Genocide, By David Holthouse // Intelligence Report, Summer 2008
15. ↑ christianchronicle.org/, Holocaust survivor honored
16. ↑ Elie Wiesel will receive an honorary doctorate from the Weizmann Establish
17. ↑ Elie Wiesel attacks pope over Holocaust bishop
18. ↑ Statement on Elie Wiesel Foundation Website
19. ↑ Agence French Presse (AFP) (Dec 24, 2008). "Wiesel Foundation loses nearly everything in Madoff scheme". http://world wide web.breitbart.com/commodity.php?id=081224163605.lxui4v5w&show_article=i&catnum=1 . Retrieved 2008-12-24.
20. ↑ ^{20.0 20.1} Visiting Buchenwald, Obama speaks of the lessons of evil
21. ↑ "Suspect named in Wiesel attack", MSNBC, Feb 16, 2007
22. ↑ ^{22.0 22.i} "N.J. human arrested in attack on Wiesel". Yahoo! News. 2007-02-17. http://news.yahoo.com/due south/ap/20070218/ap_on_re_us/wiesel_accosted.
23. ↑ "Human guilty in fake imprisonment of Elie Wiesel". Reuters . http://united kingdom.reuters.com/commodity/mediaNews/idUKN2146787020080722.
24. ↑ news.yahoo.com, Man convicted of hate crime for accosting Wiesel
25. ↑ nbc11.com, Courtroom Reaches Verdict In Elie Wiesel Accosting Trial
26. ↑ sfgate.com, SF jury convicts man of i felony in Wiesel case
27. ↑ Associated Press (2008-08-18). "Man gets two-yr sentence for accosting Elie Wiesel". The states Today . http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-08-18-wiesel-accosted_N.htm . Retrieved 2008-08-27.
28. ↑ "Eric Hunt: Cease tormenting children with Holyhoax lies". http://erichunt.net/.
29. ↑ Finkelstein, N.(2003) The Holocaust Manufacture, 2nd edition, p.44-45.
30. ↑ Finkelstein, N.(2003) The Holocaust Industry, second edition, p.75-76.
31. ↑ http://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/1153-elie-weisel

References

• Berenbaum, Michael: The Vision of the Void. Theological Reflections on the Works of Elie Wiesel, Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan Academy Press, 1979 ISBN 0-8195-6189-iv PA
• Fonseca, Isabel: Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey, London, Vintage, 1996
• Fine, Ellen S. Legacy of Nighttime: The Literary Universe of Elie Wiesel. State University of New York Press, 1982. ISBN 0-87395-590-0 (paperback)
• Rota, Olivier. Choisir le français pour exprimer fifty'indicible. Elie Wiesel, in Mythe et mondialisation. L'exil dans les littératures francophones, Actes du colloque organisé dans le core du projet bilatéral franco-roumain « Mythes et stratégies de la francophonie en Europe, en Roumanie et dans les Balkans », plan Brâcuşi des 8-9 septembre 2005, Editura Universităţii Suceava, Suceava, 2006, pp. 47-55. Re-published in Sens, december. 2007, pp. 659-668.
• Wiesel, Elie. All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs. New York: Knopf, 1995.
• Wiesel, Elie. And the Bounding main is Never Full: Memoirs 1969-. New York: Schocken, 1999.

External links

• The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
• Elie Wiesel: First Person Atypical PBS special on Elie Wiesel
• New York Times - The Conversation with Elie Wiesel
• Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Elie Wiesel from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Text and Audio of Wiesel'south "Perils of Indifference" Speech
• Text and sound of Elie Wiesel's famous speech on "The Perils of Indifference"
• Ubben Lecture at DePauw University
• Video of Ethics After the Holocaust oral communication
• Elie Wiesel Video Gallery
• Christopher Hitchens criticizes Elie Wiesel in the Nation Magazine
• Author attacked in Southward.F. hotel
• "Elie Wiesel on his Beliefs" ~ Toronto Star
• Elie Wiesel's proper name pronunciation on TeachingBooks.net
• Charlie Rose June 8, 2009 interview about President Obama's visit to Buchenwald

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