Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence

by Berger, Joseph
ISBN: 9780300228984
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The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate and author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night, who became an international spokesperson for opposition to genocide

As an orphaned survivor and witness to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) became a torchbearer for victims and survivors of the Holocaust at a time when the world preferred to forget. How did this frail, soft-spoken man from a small village in the Carpathians become such an influential presence on the world stage? Using Wiesel's writings and interviews with his family, close friends, scholars, and critics, Joseph Berger presents Wiesel as both revered Nobel laureate and man of complex psychological texture and contradictions.

Berger explores Wiesel's Hasidic childhood in Sighet, his postwar years as a teenage orphan in France, his transformation into a Parisian intellectual, his hungry years scraping together a living in America as a working journalist, his emergence as a spokesperson for Holocaust survivors, and his difficult final years. Through this fully realized portrait, we see how this teenage survivor from a Hasidic family became the eloquent embodiment of Holocaust remembrance and of forceful opposition to indifference.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Berger, Joseph
  • ISBN: 9780300228984
  • Condition: New
  • Number Of Pages: 360
  • Publication Year: 2023
Language: English

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