Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel is a Romanian-born Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of more than 50 books. He is best-known for his memoir, Night, which described his experiences as a prisoner at the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. The best-seller, which first appeared in Yiddish in 1955, has been translated into 30 languages and was chosen by Oprah Winfrey for her book club in 2006. Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. He lives in Boston where he is a professor of humanities at Boston University.
Bibliography:
- 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 0-553-27253-5 (Personal account of the Holocaust)
- 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)(Artistically depicted memories)
- A Beggar in Jerusalem (Random House 1970)(Novel)
- One Generation After (Random House 1970)
- Souls on Fire (Random House 1972) ISBN 0-671-44171-X (First book of portraits and legends of Hasidic Masters: many of the most famous)
- 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 (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 Press 1980)
- The Trial of God (Random House 1979)(Play)
- The Testament (Summit 1981)
- Five Biblical Portraits (University of Notre Dame Press 1981)(Biblical figures reinterpreted)
- Somewhere a Master (Further Hasidic portraits, after “Souls on Fire”) (Summit 1982)
- The Golem (illustrated by Mark Podwal) (Summit 1983) ISBN 0-671-49624-7 (Children’s book on the Jewish legend)
- 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)(essays and depictions after “A Jew Today”)
- Evil and Exile (University of Notre Dame Press 1990)
- Sages and Dreamers (Summit 1991)(Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic and Hasidic figures)
- 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 (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 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 (Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic and Hasidic figures) (Schocken 2003) ISBN 0-8052-4173-6
- The Time of the Uprooted (Knopf 2005)
- A Mad Desire to Dance (2009)
- Rashi a biography (2009)
- The Sonderberg Case (2010)
Articles about Elie Wiesel:
January 10, 2011
Night by Elie Wiesel — Plot summary and notes
More than any other book, I come across questions from students looking for information on Night by Elie Wiesel. It is an important book, especially in regards to describing the conditions for Jewish prisoners in the camps during the Holocaust. … Continue reading
October 8, 2010
Elie Wiesel speaks with David Axelrod
Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel spoke with White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod at the 92nd Street Y on Wednesday night and the talk received some significant press coverage. Over on Politico, reporter Ben Smith described how the two mused over … Continue reading
August 24, 2010
Elie Wiesel’s The Sonderberg Case
Elie Wiesel’s new book, The Sonderberg Case, comes out today in hardcover. In this latest work from the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor, Wiesel explores themes that will be familiar to many of his readers: memory and justice. … Continue reading
August 8, 2010
Terry Teachout on Elie Wiesel
Terry Teachout, the Wall Street Journal‘s drama critic, had some harsh words for Elie Wiesel in wake of Wiesel’s threat to sue a playwright who had written a play about an imagined relationship between the Holocaust survivor and Bernie Madoff. … Continue reading
July 22, 2010
‘Imagining Madoff’ moves forward without Elie Wiesel
A play imagining the relationship between Elie Wiesel and Bernie Maddoff began performances this week with one important change – the character that was supposed to be Elie Wiesel was no longer referred to as “Elie Wiesel.” Instead, the character … Continue reading
November 12, 2009
Elie Wiesel interview on AlJazeera
In this video, Riz Khan interviews Elie Wiesel and asks him about the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, about his life growing up in a small Romanian town and about his time in Auschwitz.
April 13, 2009
Genocides, past, present and Holocaust literature
This past weekend, I had the privilege of listening to a refugee from Darfur speak during Shabbat morning services. The timing was no accident. We’re coming up on Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah, on Tuesday, April 21. I was … Continue reading
January 19, 2009
Elie Wiesel quotes
Elie Wiesel quotes are among the most useful in setting the mood for an essay. Let them add gravity to whatever project you are working on. “If you ask me what I want to achieve, it’s to create an awareness, … Continue reading
November 16, 2007
Friday open thread: Wiesel, Roth, more Mailer
Here are a few items from around the Web this week: • The New Jersey man accused of attacking Elie Wiesel at a San Francisco hotel has been ordered to stand trial. • Sarah Kerr gives her take on Philip … Continue reading
November 15, 2007
Yiddish writer left ‘Inheritance’ for us
TSAR Publications, a Canadian press, has published a new collection of Peretz Markish’s poetry. For those who are not familiar, Markish had been one of the most popular Yiddish poets in the early part of the 20th century. He was … Continue reading