Celebrating Elie Wiesel: Stories, Essays, Reflections
Presents 22 stories, essays, and reflections that celebrate Wiesel's literary, moral, religious, and human rights contributions. The contributors talk about the Nobel Peace Prize winner's novels, discuss his role as a Holocaust survivor, celebrate his struggles against injustice, even compare his work to that of Sophocles. The contributors include Alan Rosen, Alan M. Dershowitz, Ariel Dorfman, John K. Roth, Pnina Lahav, Vaclav Havel, and Cynthia Ozick. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
WIESEL, ELIE, 1928-2016HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945), IN LITERATUREHUMAN RIGHTS
RELEASED1998
PUBLISHERUniv of Notre Dame Pr
LENGTH344
LANGUAGEEN
Eliezer Wiesel is a Romania-born American novelist, political activist, and Holocaust survivor of Hungarian Jewish descent. He is the author of over 40 books, the best known of which is Night, a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps. Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. On November 30, 2006 Wiesel received an honorary knighthood in London, England in recognition of his work toward raising Holocaust education in the United Kingdom. Source: Goodreads.com
Celebrating Elie Wiesel: Stories, Essays, Reflections
Presents 22 stories, essays, and reflections that celebrate Wiesel's literary, moral, religious, and human rights contributions. The contributors talk about the Nobel Peace Prize winner's novels, discuss his role as a Holocaust survivor, celebrate his struggles against injustice, even compare his work to that of Sophocles. The contributors include Alan Rosen, Alan M. Dershowitz, Ariel Dorfman, John K. Roth, Pnina Lahav, Vaclav Havel, and Cynthia Ozick. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
WIESEL, ELIE, 1928-2016HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945), IN LITERATUREHUMAN RIGHTS
RELEASED1998
PUBLISHERUniv of Notre Dame Pr
LENGTH344
LANGUAGEEN
Eliezer Wiesel is a Romania-born American novelist, political activist, and Holocaust survivor of Hungarian Jewish descent. He is the author of over 40 books, the best known of which is Night, a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps. Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. On November 30, 2006 Wiesel received an honorary knighthood in London, England in recognition of his work toward raising Holocaust education in the United Kingdom. Source: Goodreads.com
