In the following excerpt from “The Art of Inventing Hope,” Elie Wiesel and Howard Reich confront the difficulties of writing about the Holocaust, a term the world has become desensitized to. Speaking ...
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 ...
‘Had anyone told us when we were liberated that we would be compelled in our lifetime to fight antisemitism once more, or worse, that we would have to prove that our suffering was genuine,” Elie ...
At his second lecture of the year at Boston University, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel last night told stories of a biblical miracle worker and shared how they comforted him when he was a child.
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Elie Wiesel’s novel “Night,” the original Yiddish title of which translated to “And the World Remained Silent,” is the single best-known book ...