Kofi A. Annan, Author, Elie Wiesel, Author Ruder Finn Press $14.95 (87p) ISBN 978-1-932646-16-0
Celebrated author and Holocaust survivor Wiesel laments that Jewish people have always been and continue to be ""vilified, threatened, offended, and physically marked for humiliation,"" and supporting evidence abounds in the photographs that...
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Elie Wiesel, Author , trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. Knopf $24 (209p) ISBN 978-0-375-40909-7
There are two strains in Nobel Peace Prize–winner Wiesel's work. One is testimonial. Beginning with his classic, Night, Wiesel has made himself one of the great witnesses of our time. The other strain derives from Wiesel's fascination
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Elie Wiesel, Author . Schocken $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4173-0
Wiesel sketches familiar biblical, talmudic and Hasidic panoramas, then asks questions about the personalities that people them. His compelling portraits focus on disturbing episodes and character flaws, drawn with an unexpected zing that brings...
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Elie Wiesel, Author Summit Books $20.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68970-4
Nobel Peace Prize winner Wiesel ( Sages and Dreamers ) reprises the themes of memory and forgetting in this almost unbearably moving novel. Elhanan Rosenbaum, one of the few Jews in his Romanian village to have survived WW II, is a widower whose...
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Elie Wiesel, Author Summit Books $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-52332-9
In these moving essays and speeches, Wiesel swings between outbursts of eloquence and the quiet, insightful conversations one might share with an old friend. His searing account of a trip to Auschwitz, Treblinka and Birkenau, many years after the...
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Elie Wiesel, Author Summit Books $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-65746-8
In what PW called ``his best work in years,'' Wiesel writes an updated Darkness at Noon , the tragic memoirs of a Russian poet whose social idealism leads him to replace his religious heritage with Communism. (Aug.)
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Elie Wiesel, Author Summit Books $17.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64407-9
Exploring the painful affinity between life and death, sanity and madness, Nobel Laureate Wiesel draws yet again on the experiences of the Holocaust to provide an answer. At the novel's center is Raphael Lipkin, a professor who, convinced he is...
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Elie Wiesel, Author, Philippe De Saint-Cheron, Author, Jon Rothschild, Translator University of Notre Dame Press $29 (256p) ISBN 978-0-268-00922-9
God may be unjust but is never indifferent, speculates Wiesel in these brilliant, intense interviews conducted in 1987 with French journalist de Saint-Cheron. The eminent Holocaust scholar and novelist ranges widely over Jewish-Christian relations,...
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Elie Wiesel, Author, Marion Wiesel, Translator Alfred A. Knopf $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-679-43917-2
This second volume in Wiesel's memoirs (the first was All Rivers Run to the Sea) is--as a memoir by this Jewish novelist, activist and Nobel Peace laureate must be--a moral accounting, of himself and of those he has known. And he spares no one, from
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Elie Wiesel, Author, Richard D. Heffner, Author, Richard D. Heffner, Joint Author . Random/ Schocken $23 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4192-1
Nobel Peace Prize winner, Holocaust survivor and prolific author Wiesel (Night; etc.) continues to challenge political injustices and to keep memories of the Holocaust alive in the interest of preventing further horror. Over several years, Wiesel...
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Elie Wiesel, Author, Shmuel Spector, Editor, Geoffrey Wigoder, Editor with Geoffrey Wigoder. NYU Press $395 (1824p) ISBN 978-0-8147-9356-5
This majestic three-volume encyclopedia, abridged from a 30-volume set in Hebrew and with a foreword by Elie Wiesel, chronicles Jewish life before and during the Holocaust. Arranged alphabetically by town, thousands of entries explore centuries of...
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Elie Wiesel, Author, David Hapgood, Translator . Knopf $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4172-5
Nobel Prize–winner Wiesel (The Judges
, Night
) considers the cost of exile for a writer and his circle of refugee friends in this meandering yet weighty new novel. Gamaliel Friedman, a Czech Jew, escaped to Hungary as a child during WWII and...
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Elie Wiesel, trans. from the French by Catherine Temerson, Knopf, $25 (192p) ISBN 978-0-307-27220-1
Wiesel (Night) returns to the moral questions that characterize the post-WWII generation in this slim novel that is both overstuffed with plot and skimpy on motive. Yedidyah Wasserman, a well-regarded theater critic in New York City, is split...
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Elie Wiesel, Author, Catherine Temerson, Translator . Knopf $25 (271p) ISBN 978-0-307-26650-7
Nobel laureate Wiesel (Night
) grapples with questions of madness, sadness and memory in this difficult but powerful novel. Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, survived the occupation in hiding with his father while his mother made a...
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Elie Wiesel, trans. from the French by Catherine Temerson. Knopf, $25.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-307-59958-2
A provocative “what-if” premise propels Nobel laureate Wiesel’s (Night) latest novel. In 1975, an Orthodox Jewish man, Shaltiel Feigenberg, is kidnapped from a Brooklyn street and held hostage by two terrorists, an Arab and an Italian, who demand...
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Elie Wiesel, read by Mark Bramhall. Random House Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 7 hrs., $30 ISBN 978-0-449-00947-5
Wiesel’s novel, set in 1975, recounts the fictional biography of Holocaust survivor Shaltiel Feigenberg, who recalls the story of his life after he is abducted from his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., and held captive by extremists. Unfortunately, award-winn
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Elie Wiesel, Author, Jon Rothschild, Translator Alfred A. Knopf $35 (448p) ISBN 978-0-679-43916-5
Wiesel's immensely moving, unforgettable memoir has the searing intensity of his novels and autobiographical tales. Before his family was arrested by Nazis in their Romanian village and transported by cattle car to Auschwitz in 1944, the devout,...
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Elie Wiesel, Author, Mark H. Podwal, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-688-16959-6
In a loosely spun collection of legends about King Solomon, Nobel laureate Wiesel adopts a friendly, conversational style--almost as if he were spending a Shabbat afternoon regaling children with snippets of tales from the Talmud and Midrash. The...
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Elie Wiesel. Schocken, $25.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4353-6
The late Nobel laureate Wiesel (Night) displays his rhetorical gifts in this collection of essays, which have been adapted from his lectures on Judaica. Wiesel casts a wide net, taking in lesser-known biblical figures including the prophet Elisha...
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