A Beggar in Jerusalem
by Elie Wiesel
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In the days following the Six-Day War, a survivor of the Holocaust visits the reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Western Wall in the Old City, he encounters the beggars and madmen that congregate there every evening, who force him to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties to the present. Weaving together myth and mystery, parable and paradox, Wiesel beckons the reader on a spiritual journey back and forth in time, always returning to Jerusalem.Tags
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NO OF PAGES: 211 SUB CAT I: Novel SUB CAT II: Jerusalem SUB CAT III: Fiction DESCRIPTION: This novel takes place in the days following the Six-Day War. A Holocaust survivor visits the newly reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Wall he encounters the beggars and madmen who congregate there every evening, and who force him to confront his past.NOTES: SUBTITLE:
NO OF PAGES: 211 SUB CAT I: Novel SUB CAT II: Jerusalem SUB CAT III: Fiction DESCRIPTION: This novel takes place in the days following the Six-Day War. A Holocaust survivor visits the newly reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Wall he encounters the beggars and madmen who congregate there every evening, and who force him to confront his past.NOTES: SUBTITLE:
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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 show more 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) show less
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- Canonical title
- A Beggar in Jerusalem
- Original title
- Le Mendiant de Jérusalem
- Original publication date
- 1968 (original French) (original French); 1970 (English translation) (English translation)
- Dedication
- For Marion
- First words
- The tale the beggar tells must be told from the beginning.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)For tales, like people, all have the same beginning.
- Original language*
- Français
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