ISBN:
9780300271225
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (360 p.)
,
1 b-w illus
Year of publication:
2023
Series Statement:
Jewish Lives
Keywords:
American literature Jewish authors
;
History and criticism
;
Judaism History
;
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish
Abstract:
An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize As 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 fumbling attempts at romance, his hungry years scraping together a living in America as a working journalist, his emergence as a spokesperson for Holocaust survivors, and his difficult final years. Through this fully realized portrait, we see how this teenage survivor from a Hasidic family became the eloquent embodiment of Holocaust remembrance and of forceful opposition to indifference
Note:
Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction
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1. Sighet, My Sighet
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2. Deportation
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3. Camps of Death
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4. Recovering
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5. Cub Reporter
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6. A Hungarian in Paris
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7. Night and Fog
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8. Coming to America
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9. Writer
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10. Survivor
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11. Return to Sighet
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12. A Russian Revolution Perhaps even
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13. Love and War
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14. Transitions
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15. The Israel Conundrum
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16. From Writer to Torchbearer
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17. A Boston Professor
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18. The Holocaust and the Arts
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19. Museums and Memory
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20. World Stage
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21. “To Help the Dead Vanquish Death”
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22. The Bitburg Fiasco
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23. Family Time
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24. Nobelist
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25. Catalyst for Change
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26. Reconciliations and Reprimands
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27. Reversals
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28. Memories
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Notes
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Credits
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Acknowledgments
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Index
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In English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300271225
URL:
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