Elie Wiesel : confronting the silence
(2023)
Nonfiction
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BIOGRAPHY/WIESEL,E
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PUBLISHED
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2023]
DESCRIPTION
viii, 342 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780300228984, 0300228988 :, 0300228988, 9780300228984
LANGUAGE
English
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As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) 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 Wiesel's prodigious literary output and interviews with his family, friends, scholars, and critics, Joseph Berger seeks to answer this question