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After his initial discovery of the long-lost poem, ... To me, “The Tale of a Niggun” stands right next to Night as one of Elie Wiesel’s most monumental works.” ...
If there was a decisive moment in my life that shaped my future as a writer, it was the day Elie Wiesel shook my hand. I was 17, ... “Never shall I forget that night, ...
Holocaust activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, 83, in his office in New York, Sept. 2012. At an intimate gathering held after an annual lecture by Elie Wiesel at Boston University ...
Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, died Saturday at age 87. And now Night, which Wiesel wrote in the 1950s, has returned to USA TODAY’s best-seller list, landing this week at No. 15.(The ...
Elie Wiesel began writing “Night” at a time when the world was still uninterested in the murder of 6 million European Jews. First published in 1958, his haunting memoir of his imprisonment as ...
Elisha Wiesel, the son of Elie Wiesel, calls for the return of the book "Night" to classrooms and why proper education of Israel and the Holocaust era can help fight antisemitism.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16 -- In her first book club pick since allegations that some parts of her last selection were fabricated, Oprah Winfrey chose Elie Wiesel's "Night," a novel so personal that the ...
Political activist and writer Elie Wiesel on November 3, 1980 in New York, New York. (Santi Visalli/Getty Images via JTA.org) I had been asked to write a poem expressing the essence of philosopher ...
The Romanian-born Nobel Peace Prize-winner Elie Wiesel, who died on July 2 at age 87, will be remembered for many accomplishments. Above all, his memoir “Night.” (1960) Translated from a 1955 ...