TY  - GEN
T1  - Elie Wiesel : confronting the silence
T2  - Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
A1  - Berger, Joseph, 1945-
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven ; London
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1378391530
AB  - An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize As an orphaned survivor and witness to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) became a torchbearer for victims and survivors of the Holocaust at a time when the world preferred to forget. How did this frail, soft-spoken man from a small village in the Carpathians become such an influential presence on the world stage? Using Wiesel's writings and interviews with his family, close friends, scholars, and critics, Joseph Berger presents Wiesel as both revered Nobel laureate and man of complex psychological texture and contradictions. Berger explores Wiesel's Hasidic childhood in Sighet, his postwar years as a teenage orphan in France, his transformation into a Parisian intellectual, his fumbling attempts at romance, his hungry years scraping together a living in America as a working journalist, his emergence as a spokesperson for Holocaust survivors, and his difficult final years. Through this fully realized portrait, we see how this teenage survivor from a Hasidic family became the eloquent embodiment of Holocaust remembrance and of forceful opposition to indifference
OP  - 342
CN  - PQ2683.I32 Z5833 2023eb
SN  - 9780300271225
SN  - 0300271220
SN  - 9780300228984
SN  - 0300228988
KW  - Wiesel, Elie, : 1928-2016
KW  - Wiesel, Elie, : 1928-2016 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Wiesel, Elie, : 1928-2016 : Religion.
KW  - Judaism : United States : History.
KW  - American literature : Jewish authors : History and criticism.
KW  - Judaïsme : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Littérature américaine : Auteurs juifs : Histoire et critique.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish
KW  - American literature : Jewish authors
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Religion
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
KW  - Biographies.
ER  -