Elie Wiesel (1928–2016)
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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania on September 30, 1928. In 1944, he and his family were deported along with other Jews to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. His mother and his younger sister died there. He loaded stones onto railway cars in a labor camp called Buna before being sent to mostra altro Buchenwald, where his father died. He was liberated by the United States Third Army on April 11, 1945. After the war ended, he learned that his two older sisters had also survived. He was placed on a train of 400 orphans that was headed to France, where he was assigned to a home in Normandy under the care of a Jewish organization. He was educated at the Sorbonne and supported himself as a tutor, a Hebrew teacher and a translator. He started writing for the French newspaper L'Arche. In 1948, L'Arche sent him to Israel to report on that newly founded state. He also became the Paris correspondent for the daily Yediot Ahronot. In this capacity, he interviewed the novelist Francois Mauriac, who urged him to write about his war experiences. The result was La Nuit (Night). After the publication of Night, Wiesel became a writer, literary critic, and journalist. His other books include Dawn, The Accident, The Gates of the Forest, The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry, and Twilight. He received a numerous awards and honors for his literary work including the William and Janice Epstein Fiction Award in 1965, the Jewish Heritage Award in 1966, the Prix Medicis in 1969, and the Prix Livre-International in 1980. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his work in combating human cruelty and in advocating justice. He had a leading role in the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D. C. He died on July 2, 2016 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Elie Wiesel
A Passover Haggadah: As Commented Upon by Elie Wiesel and Illustrated by Mark Podwal (1993) 240 copie
Le storie dei saggi: i maestri della Bibbia, del Talmud e del Chassidismo (1754) — Autore — 152 copie
Filled with Fire and Light: Portraits and Legends from the Bible, Talmud, and Hasidic World (2021) 23 copie
Telling the Tale : A Tribute to Elie Wiesel on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday - Essays, Reflections, and Poems (1993) 9 copie
The Power of Forgiveness — Autore — 3 copie
Holocaust Memoir Digest: Night 2 copie
Who's Who Among American High School Students 1993 1994 (Volume IX Illinois Wisconsin) (1994) 1 copia
La notte 1 copia
Nakts 1 copia
Sha'are Haya'ar 1 copia
Zalmen 1 copia
The accident 1 copia
The Power of Forgiveness 1 copia
රාත්රිය 1 copia
Two Images, One Destiny 1 copia
Návrat do Sighetu 1 copia
From Holocaust To Rebirth 1 copia
Elie Wiesel Reading from His Works; The Gates of Forest; Night; The Song of the Dead; The Jews of Silence. (1988) 1 copia
“An evening guest” 1 copia
Our Jewish Solitude 1 copia
Barbara 1 copia
Will Soviet Jewry survive? 1 copia
Wiesel Eli 1 copia
GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE-VOL,4 1 copia
A Song for Hope 1 copia
GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE-VOL,5 1 copia
GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE-VOL,6 1 copia
Auschwitz and Treblinka: So much violence, so much indifference — Autore — 1 copia
Esau and Jacob 1 copia
La ville de la chance 1 copia
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 1 copia
The accident 1 copia
Home Before Dark 1 copia
Opere correlate
Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II (2003) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 108 copie
The Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust (2007) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 91 copie
With Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest: Memories of the War Years in Hungary (1979) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 73 copie
The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (1995) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 58 copie
Speeches of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Orations Deserving of a Wider Audience (2018) — Narratore, alcune edizioni — 51 copie
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Volume I (1656) — Prefazione — 24 copie
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Volume III (1771) — Prefazione — 24 copie
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Volume II (1766) — Prefazione — 22 copie
Preventing Genocide: Practical Steps toward Early Detection and Effective Action (2008) — Prefazione — 14 copie
The Iaşi Pogrom, June–July 1941: A Photo Documentary from the Holocaust in Romania (2015) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 11 copie
A Life in Jewish Education: Essays in Honor of Louis L. Kaplan (Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture;, 4) (1997) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Projekt Totentanz - memento mori Aspekte des Todes in der Kunst ; Dokumentation einer Ausstellung im Museum Bochum vom… (1998) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Charlie Rose with Elie Wiesel; Amy Tan (November 9, 1995) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Wiesel, Eliezer
- Altri nomi
- A-7713
WIESEL, Élie
WIESEL, Elie
WIESEL, Eliezer - Data di nascita
- 1928-09-30
- Data di morte
- 2016-07-02
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Sharon Gardens Cemetery, Valhalla, New York, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Romania (birth)
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Romania
- Luogo di nascita
- Sighet, Maramureş County, Romania
Sighet, Romania - Luogo di morte
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Hungary
Auschwitz, Poland
Buchenwald, Germany
Paris, France
Israel
New York, New York, USA (mostra tutto 7)
Sighet, Romania (birth) - Istruzione
- University of Paris
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
writer
professor
novelist
author
memoirist (mostra tutto 8)
Holocaust survivor
translator - Relazioni
- Wiesel, Marion (wife)
Bloch, Sam E. (colleague) - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters( [1996])
Boston University
United States Holocaust Memorial Council
Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Nobel Peace Prize (1986)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1992)
Congressional Gold Medal (1984)
Medal of Liberty (1986)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award (2007)
Norman Mailer Prize (2011) (mostra tutto 8)
National Humanities Medal (2009)
Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2012) - Breve biografia
- Elie Wiesel was born to a Jewish family in the small town of Sighet in northern Transylvania, then part of Hungary, now Romania. He was still a teenager when he was taken from his home and deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald. His memoirs of that experience are unforgettably recorded in NIGHT, which became a worldwide bestseller. Elie Wiesel was Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and founding chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
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- 36
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 763
- ISBN
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- Lingue
- 27
- Preferito da
- 69
Tra tutte, ce ne sono alcune che trascendono l'importanza storica e morale ed assumono anche un valore letterario: l'opera di Elie Wiesel fa decisamente parte di questa categoria. Innanzitutto perché è scritta magistralmente, riesce a toccare le corde della nostra emotività senza scadere mai nel patetismo; e poi perchè assume un significato universale che va al di la della cronaca delle atrocità dei lager. Dov'era Dio ad Auschwitz? Questa è la domanda che si pone Eliezer e che pone in fondo a tutti noi: nel suo caso la risposta è stato un silenzio assordante. Si va ad approfondire un aspetto dell'Olocausto forse meno brutale ma più sottile e duraturo: la perdita della fede e quindi della speranza. La notte del titolo è intesa come vita non più illuminata dalla luce divina, a dimostrazione del fatto che le lunghe ombre del campo non lasceranno mai le vite di chi lo ha vissuto.
Ovviamente è inevitabile il paragone con Primo Levi, ma mentre quest'ultimo focalizza la sua attenzione sull'uomo in tutti i suoi aspetti etici e psicologici, Elie Wiesel affronta la stessa esperienza dal punto di vista della spiritualità. Per me Se questo è un uomo è inarrivabile, sia per i temi trattati che per valore affettivo, ma quest'opera gli si avvicina molto ed entra di diritto tra i testi che chiunque dovrebbe leggere almeno una volta nella vita.… (altro)