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Night (Hardcover)
Elie Wiesel; Translated by Marion Wiesel
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A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel
"Night" is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and
deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a
teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion
Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal
memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original
intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the
enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate
dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity
for inhumanity to man.
"""Night" offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors,
everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and
Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical
as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration
of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is
and will be.
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Night (Paperback)
Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities
committed during the Holocaust, Night is translated by Marion
Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel in Penguin Modern Classics.
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was
sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors
he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a
world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Describing
in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's
perspective, Night is among the most personal, intimate and
poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust. A compelling
consideration of the darkest side of human nature and the enduring
power of hope, it remains one of the most important works of the
twentieth century. Elie Wiesel (b. 1928) was fifteen years old when
he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. After
the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist.
During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois
Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the
death camps. The result was his internationally acclaimed memoir,
La Nuit or Night, which has since been translated into more than
thirty languages. If you enjoyed Night, you might also like Primo
Levi's The Periodic Table, also available in Penguin Modern
Classics. 'A slim volume of terrifying power' The New York Times
'To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a
record' Alfred Kazin 'Wiesel has taken his own anguish and
imaginatively metamorphosed it into art' Curt Leviant, Saturday
Review
When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit
help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make
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The extraordinary experiences of ordinary people-their suffering
and their unimaginable bravery-are the subject of Judy Glickman
Lauder's remarkable photographs. Beyond the Shadows responds to the
world's looking the other way as the Nazis took power and their
hate-fueled nationalism steadily turned to mass murder. In the
context of the horror of the Holocaust, it also tells the uplifting
story of how the citizens and leadership of Denmark, under
occupation and at tremendous risk to themselves, defied the Third
Reich to transport the country's Jews to safety in Sweden. Over the
past thirty years, Glickman Lauder has captured the intensity of
death camps in Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, in dark and
expressive photographs, telling of a world turned upside down, and,
in contrast, the redemptive and uplifting story of the "Danish
exception." Including texts by Holocaust scholars Michael Berenbaum
and Judith S. Goldstein, and a previously unpublished original text
by survivor Elie Wiesel, Beyond the Shadows demonstrates
passionately what hate can lead to, and what can be done to stand
in its path. "This is photography and storytelling for our times,
about what hate leads to, and how we can stand up to it. Beyond the
Shadows is powerful and revealing, and sharply relevant to all of
us who believe in the human family." - Sir Elton John
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Night (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Elie Wiesel; Translated by Marion Wiesel
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A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel
"Night" is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and
deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a
teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion
Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal
memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original
intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the
enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate
dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity
for inhumanity to man.
"""Night" offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors,
everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and
Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical
as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration
of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is
and will be.
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Night (Book)
Elie Wiesel
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A moving account of survival and faith from Israel Meir Lau, a
Holocaust survivor and former Chief Rabbi of Israel, with forewords
by former President of Israel Shimon Peres and the bestselling
author of Night, Elie Wiesel—both Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
 One of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald, Israel Meir
Lau was just eight years old when the camp was liberated in 1945.
Descended from a 1,000-year unbroken chain of rabbis, he grew up to
become Chief Rabbi of Israel--and like many of the great rabbis,
Lau is a master storyteller. Out of the Depths is his harrowing,
miraculous, and inspiring account of life in one of the Nazis’
deadliest concentration camps and how he managed to survive against
all possible odds. Lau, who lost most of his family in the
Holocaust, also chronicles his life after the war, including his
emigration to Mandate Palestine during a period that coincides with
the development of the State of Israel. The story continues through
the present day, with that once-lost boy of eight now a brilliant,
charismatic, and world-revered figure who has visited with three
popes, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, and countless global
leaders, including Queen Elizabeth, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama,
and Tony Blair.  Lau’s insightful reflections on his
experiences during the Holocaust and World War II make Out of the
Depths a compelling tribute to the strength and resilience of the
human spirit. Originally published in Hebrew under the title Do Not
Raise a Hand Against the Boy, this is a deeply inspiring and
powerful memoir for readers of Holocaust books such as The Daughter
of Auschwitz and Man’s Search for Meaning. Â
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Dawn (Paperback, Pbk. ed)
Elie Wiesel; Translated by Frances Frenaye
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"The author...has built knowledge into artistic fiction."--"The New
York Times Book Review"
Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli
freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the
captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for
the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long
wait for morning and death provides "Dawn," Elie Wiesel's ever more
timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative.
Caught between the manifold horrors of the past and the troubling
dilemmas of the present, Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and
ultimately God as he waits for the appointed hour and his act of
assassination. "Dawn" is an eloquent meditation on the compromises,
justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they
murder other human beings.
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic
account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances
that has enthralled readers for generations. This Penguin Classics
edition is edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler, translated
by Susan Massotty, and includes an introduction by Elie Wiesel,
author of Night. 'June, 1942: I hope I will be able to confide
everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone,
and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.' In
Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne
Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, they, another
family and a German dentist lived in a 'secret annexe', fearing
discovery. All that time, Anne kept a diary. Since its publication
in 1947, Anne Frank's diary has been read by tens of millions of
people. This Definitive Edition restores substantial material
omitted from the original edition, giving us a deeper insight into
Anne Frank's world. Her curiosity about her emerging sexuality, the
conflicts with her mother, her passion for Peter, a boy whose
family hid with hers, and her acute portraits of her fellow
prisoners reveal Anne as more human, more vulnerable and more vital
than ever. 'One of the greatest books of the twentieth century'
Guardian 'A modern classic' Julia Neuberger, The Times
Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, studies four
different rebbes in eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, delving into
their lives, their work, and their impact on the Hasidic movement
and beyond. In Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle against
Melancholy, Jewish author, philosopher, and humanist Elie Wiesel
presents the stories of four Hasidic masters, framing their
biographies in the context of his own life, with direct attention
to their premonitions of the tragedy of the Holocaust. These four
leaders—Rebbe Pinhas of Koretz, Rebbe Barukh of Medzebozh, the
Holy Seer of Lublin, and Rebbe Naphtali of Ropshitz—are each
charismatic and important figures in Eastern European Hasidism.
Through careful study and consideration, Wiesel shows how each of
these men were human, fallible, and susceptible to anger,
melancholy, and despair. We are invited to truly understand their
work both as religious figures studying and pursuing the divine and
as humans trying their best to survive in a world rampant with pain
and suffering. This new edition of Four Hasidic Masters, originally
published in 1978, includes a new text design, cover, the original
foreword by Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., and a new introduction by
Rabbi Irving Greenberg, introducing Wiesel’s work to a new
generation of readers.
Nobel Peace Prize–winner Elie Wiesel brings ancient religious
leaders to literary life, framing his commentary with pressing and
enduring questions as a survivor and witness to the Holocaust. Five
Biblical Portraits represents an old-new approach to Jewish textual
commentary. This sequel to Elie Wiesel’s Messengers of God
continues the work done in that volume of bringing religious
figures to life and studying their place both in the text and in
our lives. Wiesel reflects on his own life as well as the tragedy
of the Holocaust as he discusses each figure and adds personal
framing and insight into the religious study. Through sensitive
readings of the scriptures as well as the Talmudic and Hasidic
sources, Wiesel illuminates Joshua, Elijah, Saul, Jeremiah, and
Jonah. He seeks not simple answers but fully complex responses to
the crucial questions of human suffering as he examines each
religious figure in turn. Originally published in 1981, this new
edition of Five Biblical Portraits includes a new text design,
cover, and an introduction by Ariel Burger, which examines how
Wiesel’s post-Holocaust Midrash teaches us not only how to read
the Bible but also how to read the world.
Since it was first published in 1980, "From Generation to
Generation" has inspired thousands to pursue the unique challenges
and rewards of Jewish genealogy. Far more engaging than a mere
how-to reference guide, this landmark book is also part detective
story and part spiritual quest. As Arthur Kurzweil takes you along
on his own fascinating journey through his family's past, you'll
learn about the tools, techniques, and the step-by-step process of
Jewish genealogical research - including the most current
information on using the Internet and the newly accessible archives
of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. But even more, after
reading this fully updated, revised, and beloved classic, you will
undoubtedly be inspired to embark on a genealogical quest of your
own!
Indelible Shadows investigates questions raised by films about the Holocaust. How does one make a movie that is both morally just and marketable? Film scholar Annette Insdorf provides sensitive readings of individual films and analyzes theoretical issues such as the "truth claims" of the cinematic medium. The third edition of Indelible Shadows includes five new chapters that cover recent trends, as well as rediscoveries of motion pictures made during and just after World War II. It addresses the treatment of rescuers, as in Schindler's List; the controversial use of humor, as in Life is Beautiful; the distorted image of survivors, and the growing genre of documentaries that return to the scene of the crime or rescue. The annotated filmography offers capsule summaries and information about another hundred Holocaust films from around the world, making this edition the most comprehensive and up to date discussion of films about the Holocaust, and an invaluable resource for film programmers and educators. Annette Insdorf is Director of Undergraduate Film Studies at Columbia University, and a Professor in the Graduate Film Division of the School of the Arts. She is the author of Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kielowski (Hyperion, 1999) and Francois Truffaut (Cambridge, 1995). She served as a jury member at the Berlin Film Festival and the Locarno Film Festival, and is the panel moderator at the Telluride Film Festival. Insdorf co-hosts (with Roger Ebert) Cannes Film Festival coverage for BRAVo/IFC.
Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First
published in 1960, it is the autobiographical account of an
adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel writes of
their battle for survival, and of his battle with God for a way to
understand the wanton cruelty he witnesses each day. In the short
novel Dawn (1961), a young man who has survived the Second World
War and settled in Palestine is apprenticed to a Jewish underground
movement, where the former victim is commanded to execute a British
officer who has been taken hostage. In Day (previously titled The
Accident, 1962), Wiesel questions the limits of the spirit and the
self: Can Holocaust survivors forge a new life without the memories
of the old? Wiesel's trilogy offers meditations on mankind's
attraction to violence and on the temptation of self-destruction.
On March 1, 1995, at the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the
liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, ARTE (a French-German
state-funded television network) proposed an encounter between two
highly-regarded figures of our time: Elie Wiesel and Jorge Semprun.
These two men, whose destinies were unparalleled, had probably
crossed paths-without ever meeting-in the Nazi concentration camp
Buchenwald in 1945. This short book is the entire transcription of
their recorded conversation. During World War II, Buchenwald was
the center of a major network of sub-camps and an important source
of forced labor. Most of the internees were German political
prisoners, but the camp also held a total of 10,000 Jews, Roma,
Sinti, Jehovah's Witnesses, and German military deserters. In these
pages, Wiesel and Semprun poignantly discuss the human condition
under catastrophic circumstances. They review the categories of
inmate at Buchenwald and agree on the tragic reason for the fate of
the victims of Nazism-as well as why this fate was largely ignored
for so long after the end of the war. Both men offer riveting
testimony and pay vibrant homage to the Jewish victims of the
Holocaust. Today, seventy-five years after the liberation of the
Nazi camps, this book could not be more timely for its
confrontation with ultra-nationalism and antisemitism.
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Night (Paperback)
Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
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Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was
sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors
he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a
world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Describing
in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's
perspective, Night is among the most personal, intimate and
poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust. A compelling
consideration of the darkest side of human nature and the enduring
power of hope, it remains one of the most important works of the
twentieth century.
Indelible Shadows investigates questions raised by films about the Holocaust. How does one make a movie that is both morally just and marketable? Film scholar Annette Insdorf provides sensitive readings of individual films and analyzes theoretical issues such as the "truth claims" of the cinematic medium. The third edition of Indelible Shadows includes five new chapters that cover recent trends, as well as rediscoveries of motion pictures made during and just after World War II. It addresses the treatment of rescuers, as in Schindler's List; the controversial use of humor, as in Life is Beautiful; the distorted image of survivors, and the growing genre of documentaries that return to the scene of the crime or rescue. The annotated filmography offers capsule summaries and information about another hundred Holocaust films from around the world, making this edition the most comprehensive and up to date discussion of films about the Holocaust, and an invaluable resource for film programmers and educators. Annette Insdorf is Director of Undergraduate Film Studies at Columbia University, and a Professor in the Graduate Film Division of the School of the Arts. She is the author of Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kielowski (Hyperion, 1999) and Francois Truffaut (Cambridge, 1995). She served as a jury member at the Berlin Film Festival and the Locarno Film Festival, and is the panel moderator at the Telluride Film Festival. Insdorf co-hosts (with Roger Ebert) Cannes Film Festival coverage for BRAVo/IFC.
Set in a Ukrainian village in the year 1649, this haunting play
takes place in the aftermath of a pogrom. Only two Jews, Berish the
innkeeper and his daughter Hannah, have survived the brutal Cossack
raids.
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