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Elisha Wiesel, the son of Elie Wiesel, calls for the return of the book "Night" to classrooms and why proper education of Israel and the Holocaust era can help fight antisemitism.
In his autobiographical book, "Night," my father, Elie Wiesel, described the daily horror he and more than a million other Jews suffered in Auschwitz, the most infamous Nazi death camp.My father's ...
So wrote Elie Wiesel in one of the most compelling of his nearly 50 books, “Messengers of God: ... “Night,” his searing 1958 memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, ...
He pointed specifically to Elie Wiesel’s “Night” as an example of a book that could be caught in the dragnet. Lochner had previously brought up “Night” during oral arguments about the Iowa law. At a ...
I have just finished reading one of the most extraordinary books I’ve ever seen, Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom, by the incomparable Rabbi Dr. Ariel Burger. The book is replete ...
Celebrities to Gather for Reading of Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night’ More than 50 luminaries from entertainment, politics and more will read from Wiesel’s Holocaust memoir on Jan. 29 at the Museum ...
It was August 1966, the summer before my senior year of high school, and I was attending a Reform movement summer camp in Wisconsin when Elie Wiesel came for a visit. Wiesel’s “Night,” a spare, ...
Elie Wiesel, the voice of millions of Holocaust victims, died in 2016, at age 87. He'd asked two things of his son: To marry a Jew, so his grandchildren would be Jewish; and, upon his death, for ...
Elie Wiesel in Paris after being awarded the French literature Medicis prize for his novel "Le Mendiant de Jerusalem," Nov. 26, 1968. ... Wiesel’s “Night,” a spare, ...