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As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928â2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust with his searing memoir Night. How did this soft-spoken man from a small Carpathian town become such an influential figure on the world stage? Drawing on Wieselâs prodigious literary output and interviews with his family, friends, scholars, and critics, Joseph Berger seeks to answer this question.
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Berger explores Wieselâs Hasidic childhood in Sighet, his postwar years spent rebuilding his life from the ashes in France, his transformation into a Parisian intellectual, his failed attempts at romance, his years scraping together a living in America as a journalist, his decision to marry and have a child, his emergence as a spokesperson for Holocaust survivors and persecuted peoples throughout the world, his lifelong devotion to the state of Israel, and his difficult final years. Through this penetrating portrait we come to know intimately the man the Norwegian Nobel Committee called âa messenger to mankind.&rdquo
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- ISBN: 9780300271225
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- ISBN: 9780300271225
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