Elie Wiesel confronting the silence
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'...
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Sprache: | eng |
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New Haven ; London
Yale University Press
2023
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Schriftenreihe: | Jewish lives
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Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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Beschreibung: | viii, 342 Seiten 1 Illustration 22 cm |
ISBN: | 9780300228984 978-0-300-22898-4 |