Elie Wiesel's 49th book, "A Mad Desire to Dance," is a novel that contains, like all his books, the voice of a madman. "These were the first people to be taken away," he says, thinking back to World ...
‘Suffering, in Jewish tradition, confers no privileges. It all depends on what one makes of that suffering.” So wrote Elie Wiesel in one of the most compelling of his nearly 50 books, “Messengers of ...
I have just finished reading one of the most extraordinary books I’ve ever seen, Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom, by the incomparable Rabbi Dr. Ariel Burger. The book is replete not only ...
During Elie Wiesel’s lifetime, he wrote over 40 books, including seven collections of profiles of Jewish sages. “Filled With Fire and Light,” a posthumous eighth volume, was released this month. It is ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press: Wiesel wrote more than 40 books about Holocaust, his life
For more than a half-century, Elie Wiesel voiced his passionate beliefs to world leaders, celebrities and general audiences in the name of victims of violence and oppression. He wrote more than 40 ...
The Forward on MSN: In Elie Wiesel’s latter years, he and I discussed the effects of the Holocaust. Those conversations are now an opera
Back in 2012, while on assignment as the Chicago Tribune’s longtime music critic, I received a phone call from my editor that would change my life. Elie Wiesel had just accepted the newspaper’s annual ...
In Elie Wiesel’s latter years, he and I discussed the effects of the Holocaust. Those conversations are now an opera