Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence Berger Joseph
The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate and author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night, who became an international spokesperson for opposition to genocideAs an orphaned survivor and…
Specifikacia Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence Berger Joseph
The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate and author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night, who became an international spokesperson for opposition to genocideAs 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 hungry years