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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel [a] (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
The Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod) (Le procès de Shamgorod tel qu'il se déroula le 25 février 1649, first published in English in 1979 by Random House) is a play by Elie Wiesel about a fictional trial ("Din-Toïre", [1] or דין תּורה) calling God as the defendant.
Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe.
Le cinquième fils (1983), [1] translated as The Fifth Son (1985) by Marion Wiesel, [2] is a novel by Elie Wiesel continuing the thematic material of The Testament. [3] It won the Grand Prize in Literature from the city of Paris .
The preface of the book includes a story often referred to as "God made man because He loves stories." The story imagines that a series of historical Hasidic leaders each followed a 3-step ritual for accomplishing the rescue of his respective community through a miracle.
Wiesel has written more than fifty books and has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Soon after earning the Nobel Prize, Wiesel and his wife Marion founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. Eliezer Wiesel explains, "In Night, it is the 'I' who speaks. In the other two, it is the 'I' who listens and questions."
Lily Edelman with Elie Wiesel, New York: Random House, 1970 ISBN 0-394-43915-5: Essays, Religion, Interviews A Jew Today: Random House, 1978 ISBN 0-394-42054-3: Essays, Religion Images from the Bible: the paintings of Shalom of Safed, the words of Elie Wiesel (with Shalom of Safed) Overlook Press, 1980 ISBN 0-87951-108-7: Art, Religion
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné (1980), [1] translated into English as The Testament (1981) [2] is a novel by Elie Wiesel. The Testament, to be followed by The Fifth Son, and The Forgotten mark a thematic change in Elie Wiesel's telling of the Holocaust and its aftermath as Wiesel moves into telling the story of three children of the survivors. [3]