Elie Wiesel (1928–2016)

Author of Night

Includes the names: Elie Wiesel, Élie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel, אלי ויזל, אלי ויזל, Élie Wiesel, Эли Визель
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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania on September 30, 1928. In 1944, he and his family were deported along with other Jews to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. His mother and his younger sister died there. He loaded stones onto railway cars in a labor camp called Buna before being sent to Buchenwald, where his father died. He was liberated by the United States Third Army on April 11, 1945. After the war ended, he learned that his two older sisters had also survived. He was placed on a train of 400 orphans that was headed to France, where he was assigned to a home in Normandy under the care of a Jewish organization. He was educated at the Sorbonne and supported himself as a tutor, a Hebrew teacher and a translator. He started writing for the French newspaper L'Arche. In 1948, L'Arche sent him to Israel to report on that newly founded state. He also became the Paris correspondent for the daily Yediot Ahronot. In this capacity, he interviewed the novelist Francois Mauriac, who urged him to write about his war experiences. The result was La Nuit (Night). After the publication of Night, Wiesel became a writer, literary critic, and journalist. His other books include Dawn, The Accident, The Gates of the Forest, The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry, and Twilight. He received a numerous awards and honors for his literary work including the William and Janice Epstein Fiction Award in 1965, the Jewish Heritage Award in 1966, the Prix Medicis in 1969, and the Prix Livre-International in 1980. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his work in combating human cruelty and in advocating justice. He had a leading role in the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D. C. He died on July 2, 2016 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Night… (more)

Series

The Night Trilogy

92nd Street Y Lectures

Elie Wiesel's Memoirs

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Works by Elie Wiesel

Night 25,839 copies, 555 reviews

The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, and Day (Author) 1,779 copies, 16 reviews

Dawn 1,639 copies, 27 reviews

Day 903 copies, 14 reviews

All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs 804 copies, 9 reviews

Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters (Author) 665 copies, 8 reviews

Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends (Author) 559 copies, 1 review

A Beggar in Jerusalem 475 copies, 3 reviews

Twilight 403 copies, 1 review

The Gates of the Forest: A Novel 399 copies, 4 reviews

The Fifth Son 379 copies, 3 reviews

The Oath (Author) 360 copies

The Trial of God (Author) 357 copies, 6 reviews

The Town Beyond the Wall: A Novel 334 copies, 1 review

The Testament (Author) 329 copies, 2 reviews

And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969- (Author) 322 copies, 1 review

The Forgotten (Author) 298 copies, 4 reviews

Legends of Our Time (Author) 287 copies, 5 reviews

One Generation After 264 copies, 4 reviews

A Mad Desire to Dance 263 copies, 12 reviews

A jew today (Author) 257 copies, 1 review

Sages and Dreamers: Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Portraits and Legends 256 copies, 2 reviews

The Judges 238 copies, 2 reviews

The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry (Author) 217 copies

The Sonderberg Case 213 copies, 4 reviews

A Passover Haggadah: As Commented Upon by Elie Wiesel and Illustrated by… 212 copies, 1 review

From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences 191 copies, 1 review

Open Heart 175 copies, 11 reviews

After the Darkness: Reflections on the Holocaust 174 copies, 2 reviews

Somewhere a Master (Author) 165 copies, 1 review

The Time of the Uprooted 158 copies, 2 reviews

Wise Men and Their Tales: Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic… (Author) 142 copies, 1 review

Five Biblical Portraits 135 copies, 2 reviews

The Golem (Author) 126 copies, 3 reviews

Hostage (Author) 124 copies, 6 reviews

Rashi (Author) 120 copies, 4 reviews

King Solomon and His Magic Ring (Author) 111 copies, 2 reviews

The Six Days of Destruction: Meditations Toward Hope 108 copies

Zalmen, or the Madness of God (Author) 106 copies

Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle against Melancholy 105 copies

Conversations with Elie Wiesel 73 copies, 1 review

Memoir in Two Voices (Author) 60 copies

Dimensions of the Holocaust 48 copies

Images from the Bible 47 copies, 1 review

Ani maamin: A song lost and found again = un chant perdu et retrouve 41 copies

Evil and Exile 40 copies

Against Silence: The Voice and Vision of Elie Wiesel (3 Volumes) 38 copies

Se taire est impossible (Autor) 37 copies

Night: With Connected Readings 35 copies, 1 review

A Journey of Faith (Author) 29 copies

An Ethical Compass: Coming of Age in the 21st Century 26 copies

Souls on Fire / Somewhere a Master (Author) 25 copies

The Tale of a Niggun (Author) 21 copies, 3 reviews

Sei riflessioni sul Talmud (Author) 21 copies

Bijbels eerbetoon : portretten en legenden (Author) 17 copies, 1 review

Filled with Fire and Light: Portraits and Legends from the Bible, Talmud,… 16 copies, 1 review

Celebrating Elie Wiesel : stories, essays, reflections 9 copies

Telling the Tale : A Tribute to Elie Wiesel on the Occasion of His 65th… 9 copies

Paroles d'étranger 8 copies, 1 review

Inside a library ; and, The stranger in the Bible 7 copies

Contre la mélancolie : Célébration hassidique II 6 copies, 1 review

Discours d'oslo 6 copies, 1 review

Confronting Anti-Semitism: Essays by Kofi A. Annan, Elie Wiesel, et al 6 copies

Credere o non credere 6 copies

t ou va tu (French Edition) (Author) 5 copies

Dialogues 4 copies

Against despair 4 copies

The Diary of a Young Girl 4 copies, 1 review

Job, of God in storm en wind 4 copies

Woorden zonder wederwoord : teksten, verhalen en dialogen 4 copies

A Meditation on Hope 3 copies

Être juif (Foreword) 3 copies

Příběhy o naději: Eseje o velkých postavách židovské tradice 3 copies

Příběhy o důvěře: Eseje o velkých postavách židovské tradice 2 copies

Elie Wiesel in Concert: Memories and Melodies of My Childhood 2 copies

The Power of Forgiveness (Author) 2 copies

Great Figures of the Bible Boxed Set 2 copies

The Accident (Bard Books/Avon # YW202) 2 copies

Report to the President: President's Commission on the Holocaust 2 copies

Ethics and memory 2 copies

Sarastus 2 copies

Holocaust Memoir Digest: Night 2 copies

Macht Gebete aus meinen Geschichten. Essays eines Betroffenen 2 copies

A Passover Seder A Video for the Family [VHS] 2 copies

Marc Klionsky 2 copies

Entre deux soleils 2 copies

Talmoedisch eerbetoon portretten en legenden van leermeesters van Israël 1 copy

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 1 copy

Home Before Dark 1 copy

Harry James Cargas in conversation with Elie Wiesel 1 copy

A Song for Hope 1 copy

Nous, les enfants 1 copy

Sha'are Haya'ar 1 copy

O Tempo dos Desenraizados 1 copy

Two Images, One Destiny 1 copy

Le Mendiant de Jérusalem: récit 1 copy

Pieśń umarłych : opowiadania 1 copy

Who's Who Among American High School Students 1993 1994 (Volume IX… 1 copy

The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident 1 copy

Tiggaren i Jerusalem 1 copy

Den Frieden feiern. 1 copy

All Rivers Run to the Sea. Memoirs Volume 1. 1928 - 196 1 copy

Nakts 1 copy

La notte 1 copy

Noah oder Ein neuer Anfang. Biblische Portraits 1 copy

Gezeiten des Schweigens. Roman. 1 copy

Our Jewish Solitude 1 copy

Espérer envers et contre tout : Un juif et un chrétien… 1 copy

Lavmælte erindringer : essays, fortellinger og dialoger 1 copy

Barbara 1 copy, 1 review

Worte wie Licht in der Nacht 1 copy

Will Soviet Jewry survive? 1 copy

The Les Turchin Chabad House Rutgers University 1 copy

“An evening guest” 1 copy

Příběhy proti smutku : moudrost chasidských mistrů 1 copy

From Holocaust To Rebirth 1 copy

Art and Culture after the Holocaust (Cross Currents reprint Fall 1976) 1 copy

Raport final. Comisia internationala pentru studierea Holocaustului în… 1 copy

Elie Wiesel Reading from His Works; The Gates of Forest; Night; The Song… 1 copy

Wiesel Eli 1 copy

Silences et mémoire d'hommes (French Edition) 1 copy

Il Mondo Sapeva-la Shoah e il Nuovo Millennio 1 copy, 1 review

Esau and Jacob 1 copy

Un ebreo oggi: racconti, saggi, dialoghi 1 copy

Bible : postavy a příběhy 1 copy

La ville de la chance 1 copy

Auschwitz and Treblinka: So much violence, so much indifference (Author) 1 copy

GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE-VOL,6 1 copy

GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE-VOL. 2 1 copy

GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE-VOL. 1 1 copy

GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE-VOL, 3 1 copy

GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE-VOL,4 1 copy

GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE-VOL,5 1 copy

Elie Wiesel - 2 Book Set - Night - The Gates of the Forest 1 copy

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Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (Introduction, some editions) 4,451 copies, 79 reviews

A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy (Foreword) 652 copies, 42 reviews

Great Religions of the World 582 copies, 3 reviews

Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (Contributor) 435 copies, 4 reviews

The Wandering Jews (Preface, some editions) 323 copies, 7 reviews

A Vanished World (Foreword) 311 copies, 6 reviews

The King of Children (Introduction, some editions) 133 copies, 3 reviews

Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith (Contributor) 128 copies, 2 reviews

The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (Contributor) 125 copies, 2 reviews

Read With Me (Contributor) 125 copies, 2 reviews

To Give Them Light: The Legacy of Roman Vishniac 105 copies, 2 reviews

Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business… (Foreword, some editions) 99 copies, 1 review

The Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust (Foreword, some editions) 85 copies, 1 review

Out of the Depths (Foreword) 79 copies

Tibet, My Story (Preface, some editions) 76 copies

Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust (Contributor) 75 copies

With Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest: Memories of the War Years in Hungary (Foreword, some editions) 67 copies, 1 review

Tikvah: Children's Book Creators Reflect on Human Rights (Introduction) 61 copies, 1 review

The Encyclopedia of Jewish life before and during the Holocaust (Foreword) 56 copies

The Jewish Writer (Contributor) 50 copies

The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the… (Foreword, some editions) 47 copies

Here I Am: Contemporary Jewish Stories from Around the World (Contributor) 45 copies, 1 review

Speeches of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Orations Deserving of a Wider… (Narrator, some editions) 38 copies, 1 review

Great Tours and Detours: The Sophisticated Traveler Series (Contributor) 34 copies, 1 review

The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Volume I (Foreword) 22 copies

The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Volume II (Foreword) 21 copies

The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Volume… (Foreword) 21 copies

Wonders: Writings and Drawings for the Child in Us All (Contributor) 19 copies

Preventing Genocide: Practical Steps toward Early Detection and Effective… (Foreword) 13 copies

Das Iaşi-Pogrom, Juni–Juli 1941: Eine Fotodokumentation aus dem… (Preface, some editions) 7 copies

A Life in Jewish Education: Essays in Honor of Louis L. Kaplan (Studies… (Contributor) 3 copies

Wo Engel sich verstecken (Associated Name) 2 copies

Projekt Totentanz - memento mori Aspekte des Todes in der Kunst ;… (Contributor) 2 copies

Critical Essays on Jerzy Kosinski (Contributor) 1 copy

Charlie Rose with Elie Wiesel; Amy Tan (November 9, 1995) (Contributor) 1 copy

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Date of birth

Date of death

Burial location

Sharon Gardens Cemetery, Valhalla, New York, USA

Gender

male

Nationality

Romania (birth)

Country (for map)

Birthplace

Sighet, Maramureş County, Romania

Sighet, Romania

Place of death

Manhattan, New York, USA

Cause of death

Places of residence

Education

Occupations

Relationships

Wiesel, Marion (wife)

Bloch, Sam E. (colleague)

Agents

Organizations

American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1996])

Boston University

United States Holocaust Memorial Council

Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity

Awards and honors

Nobel Peace Prize (1986)

Presidential Medal of Freedom (1992)

Congressional Gold Medal (1984)

Medal of Liberty (1986)

Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award (2007)

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Short biography

Elie Wiesel was born to a Jewish family in the small town of Sighet in northern Transylvania, then part of Hungary, now Romania. He was still a teenager when he was taken from his home and deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald. His memoirs of that experience are unforgettably recorded in NIGHT, which became a worldwide bestseller. Elie Wiesel was Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and founding chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

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