books by Elie Wiesel

books by Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel

Bantam, 1982

The Most Gripping Story I Have Ever Read
As an English teacher, I have my ninth graders read this memoir every year. And every year, I am moved to tears. Not only does Mr. Wiesel tell of his devastating experience of dehumanization in the Holocaust, but he tells it with such eloquence and mastery of the ...

Day: A Novel

Elie Wiesel

Hill and Wang, 2006

Truly Heartfelt
I disagree with the other comments. Of course, this may not be for everyone. It was full of self and ramblings. I, however, felt very much connected to this story. Especially with all its confusion. I think that was the point. He wrote this story so beautifully, I ...

Night (Oprah's Book Club)

Elie Wiesel

Hill and Wang, 2006

A new day for Night
I was happy to see that this book was added to Oprah's book club, this ment that millions who never knew of this book would read it or at least hear it's story. I read this in college as part of the debates on wither the US should have entered WW2 before 1941. When I ...

The Wandering Jews

Joseph Roth, Elie Wiesel

W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

The Fears of 1937 Were Realized Sooner than Roth Thought
This book was a paen by a 'civilized (read westernized)' Jew on the cusp of WW2 and the holocaust. Roth travelled in most of post-WW1 Eastern Europe to learn the plight of his Jewish compatriots. In the original edition (written in 1926) he speaks of Eastern European ...

After the Darkness: Reflections on the Holocaust

Elie Wiesel

Schocken, 2002

Yes of course, ""Reflection on the Holocaust""!!!
Those who do not believe that there was, and still is, a legend in the name of 'Holocaust' are kindly invited to visit Ghaza and Lebanon (North and notably South) to look and see how such a word is actually pronounced. They will see a thorough destruction involving ...

The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day

Elie Wiesel

Hill and Wang, 2008

A Must Read
This is a must read - for everyone! A real, raw and riviting account of Ellie Wiesel's personal experience during the Holocaust. Starting when no one believed the pending danger of war... to the formation of ghettos and finally life in a concentration camp. His ...

The Trial of God

Elie Wiesel

Schocken, 1995

A Trial of Faith
While interred in Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel witnessed a trial. While such things are not unusual, this trial was. It was unusual because of the defendant: God. God was tried for violating the covenant by turning his back in silence on the Jewish people in their ...

Dawn

Elie Wiesel

Hill and Wang, 2006

Excellent thinking book & totally different from Night
First off, this is not Night 2. I naively expected that when publisher's try to frame them as part of a 'trilogy'. Night is absolutely and without bar one of the most fantastic books I have read in my life. This is not just another chapter of that. And it is not ...

All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs

Elie Wiesel

Schocken, 1996

disagree with "mediocre" label
I found this a very compelling read, lasting over several readings. It's true the author did not stick tightly to chronological order, but anyone who has read his fiction knows his style tends to be very esoteric and rather free-floating (I personally do not care for ...

Letters to My Mother: A Message of Love, A Plea for Freedom

Ingrid Betancourt, Lorenzo Delloye-Betancourt, ...

Abrams Image, 2008

A politician, a fighter, a poet, a mother...
There are two letters. The first is Ingrid Betancourt's letter to HER mother, written in October 2007, then "captured" during the arrest of a FARC rebel in December, 2007. The second letter is that of Ingrid's children to THEIR mother in response. I'd read the US ...

And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969-

Elie Wiesel

Schocken, 2000

An Inspirational Man, An Important Book
Easily one of the best autobiographies of the last half of the century (when coupled with Volume One). It is almost hard to believe that a man with such vision, such drive, such intelligence could have written almost an understated autobiography which reads as easily ...

Messengers of God

Elie Wiesel

Simon & Schuster, 1985

Classic Midrash in the Modern Age
Elie Wiesel is one of the most important thinkers of the modern era. His insights into the human condition are possibly the most profound to come from the Holocaust In Messengers of G-d, Wiesel takes classic characters using classic midrash and make them utterly ...

From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

Elie Wiesel

Schocken, 1995

Wiesel reminisces upon traditions of his Jewishness!
Once upon a weekend retreat at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, I became absorbed by Elie Wiesel's fascinatingly describing his Memory of Jewish holidays, the Talmudic literature, the Jewish Laws and stories of Abraham, Moses, Isaac and Jacob. At that point in my life ...

The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945

David S. Wyman

New Press, 2007

Disturbing.
The reader will not want to believe what is being read. The evil, satanic Nazi regime and it's methods intent on the slaughter and genocide of the European Jews is well documented elsewhere. Little is written or heard about the passive accomplices....I hesitate in ...