Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, was born in the provincial town of Sighet, Romania on September 30, 1928. A Jewish community had existed there since 1640, when it sought ...

The coveted Nobel Prizes are announced annually, and the most recent installment is here. This year's U.S. winners include Harvard professor Claudia Goldin, two University of Pennsylvania ...

Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the dead. On the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation Michael Goldfarb explores the ...

(JTA) — Vandals stripped away inscriptions on the Holocaust memorial in Athens written by Elie Wiesel. The attack ... to become a renowned author and Nobel Prize winner, wrote the inscription ...