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On September 25, 2011, Wiesel spoke at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. On September 25, 2011, Wiesel spoke at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

Wiesel was devastated having lost the bulk of his fortune to Bernanke Madoffs Ponzi scheme. To add insult to injury, he was the unwitting victim of telephone hacking/wiretapping by the Israeli firm Amdocs.


===2007 attack on Wiesel=== ===2007 attack on Wiesel===

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Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel at the Time 100 Gala, May 4, 2010.Elie Wiesel at the Time 100 Gala, May 4, 2010.
BornEliezer Wiesel
(1928-09-30) September 30, 1928 (age 96)
Sighet, Máramaros County, Hungary; Now Maramureş County, Romania
OccupationPolitical activist, professor, novelist
Notable awardsNobel Peace Prize
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Congressional Gold Medal

Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE(/ˈɛli vɨˈzɛl/ (In Hungarian: Wiesel Lázár); born September 30, 1928) is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps. Wiesel is also the Advisory Board chairman of the Algemeiner Journal newspaper.

When Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a "messenger to mankind", stating that through his struggle to come to terms with "his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler's death camps", as well as his "practical work in the cause of peace", Wiesel had delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity.

Early life

The house where Wiesel was born

Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania (now Sighetu Marmaţiei), Maramureş, Kingdom of Romania, in the Carpathian Mountains. His mother, Sarah Feig, was the daughter of Dodye Feig, a celebrated Vizhnitz Hasid and farmer from a nearby village. He was active and trusted within the community, and in the early years of his life had spent a few months in jail for having helped Polish Jews who escaped and were hungry. It was his father, Shlomo, who instilled a strong sense of humanism in his son, encouraging him to learn Hebrew and to read literature, whereas his mother encouraged him to study the Torah. Wiesel has said his father represented reason, and his mother Sarah promoted faith. In his home, his family spoke Yiddish most of the time, but also Romanian, Hungarian and German. Wiesel had three sisters – older sisters Hilda and Beatrice, and younger sister Tzipora. Beatrice and Hilda survived the war and were reunited with Wiesel at a French orphanage. They eventually emigrated to North America, with Beatrice moving to Montreal, Canada. Tzipora, Shlomo and Sarah did not survive the war.

World War II

Buchenwald, 1945. Wiesel is in the second row from the bottom, seventh from the left.

In 1940, Romania lost the town of Sighet following the Second Vienna Award. In 1944, Wiesel, his family and the rest of the town were placed in one of the two ghettos in Sighet. Wiesel and his family lived in the larger of the two, on Serpent Street. On May 16, 1944, the Hungarian authorities allowed the German army to deport the Jewish community in Sighet to Auschwitz-Birkenau. While at Auschwitz, his inmate number, "A-7713", was tattooed onto his left arm. Wiesel was separated from his mother and sisters Hilda, Bea, and Tzipora. Wiesel's mother and sister Tzipora were presumably killed in the gas chambers upon arrival. Wiesel and his father were sent to the attached work camp Buna, a subcamp of Auschwitz III-Monowitz. He managed to remain with his father for over eight months as they were forced to work under appalling conditions and shuffled between three concentration camps in the closing days of the war. On January 29, 1945, just a few weeks after the two were marched to Buchenwald, Wiesel's father was beaten by a Nazi as he was suffering from dysentery, starvation, and exhaustion. He was also beaten by other inmates for his food. He was later sent to the crematorium, only months before the camp was liberated by the U. S. Third Army on April 11.

After the war

After World War II, Wiesel taught Hebrew and worked as a choirmaster before becoming a professional journalist. He learned French, which became the language he used most frequently in writing. He wrote for Israeli and French newspapers, including Tsien in Kamf (in Yiddish) L'arche. For ten years after the war, Wiesel refused to write about or discuss his experiences during the Holocaust. Like many survivors, Wiesel could not find the words to describe his experiences. However, a meeting with François Mauriac, the 1952 Nobel Laureate in Literature, who eventually became Wiesel's close friend, persuaded him to write about his experiences.

Wiesel first wrote the 900-page memoir Un di velt hot geshvign (And the World Remained Silent) in Yiddish, which was published in abridged form in Buenos Aires. Wiesel rewrote a shortened version of the manuscript in French, and it was published as the 127-page La Nuit, and later translated into English as Night. Even with Mauriac's support, Wiesel had trouble finding a publisher for his book, and initially it sold few copies.

In 1960, Arthur Wang of Hill & Wang agreed to pay a $100 pro-forma advance, and published it in the US in September that year as Night. The book agent was Georges Borchardt, then just starting his career. Borchardt remains Wiesel's literary agent today.

The book sold just 1,046 copies over the next 18 months, but attracted interest from reviewers, leading to television interviews with Wiesel and meetings with literary figures like Saul Bellow. "The English translation came out in 1960, and the first printing was 3,000 copies", Wiesel said in an interview. "And it took three years to sell them. Now, I get 100 letters a month from children about the book. And there are many, many million copies in print." The 1979 book and play The Trial of God is said to have been based on Wiesel's real-life Auschwitz experience of witnessing three Jews who, close to death, conduct a trial against God, under the accusation that He has been oppressive of the Jewish people.

Night has been translated into 30 languages. By 1997, the book was selling 300,000 copies annually in the United States alone. By March 2006, about six million copies were sold in the United States. On January 16, 2006, Oprah Winfrey chose the work for her book club. One million extra paperback and 150,000 hardcover copies were printed carrying the "Oprah's Book Club" logo, with a new translation by Wiesel's wife, Marion, and a new preface by Wiesel. On February 13, 2006, Night was no. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list for paperback non-fiction.

Life in the United States

In 1955, Wiesel moved to New York City, having become a US citizen: due to injuries suffered in a traffic accident, he was forced to stay in New York past his visa's expiration and was offered citizenship to resolve his status. In the US, Wiesel wrote over 40 books, both fiction and non-fiction, and won many literary prizes. Wiesel's writing is considered among the most important in Holocaust literature. Some historians credit Wiesel with giving the term 'Holocaust' its present meaning, but he does not feel that the word adequately describes the event and wishes it were used less frequently to describe significant occurrences as everyday tragedies.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for speaking out against violence, repression, and racism. He has received many other prizes and honors for his work, including the Congressional Gold Medal in 1985, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1996.

Wiesel also played a role in the initial success of The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski by endorsing it prior to revelations that the book was fiction and, in the sense that it was presented as all Kosinski's true experience, a hoax.

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Wiesel addressing the United States Congress

He is also the recipient of The International Center in New York's Award of Excellence. Wiesel has published two volumes of his memoirs. The first, All Rivers Run to the Sea, was published in 1994 and covered his life up to the year 1969 while the second, titled And the Sea is Never Full and published in 1999, covered 1969 to 1999.

Wiesel and his wife, Marion, started the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. He served as chairman for the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust (later renamed US Holocaust Memorial Council) from 1978 to 1986, spearheading the building of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C..

Wiesel is particularly fond of teaching and holds the position of Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Boston University. From 1972 to 1976, Wiesel was a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York and member of the American Federation of Teachers. In 1982 he served as the first Henry Luce Visiting Scholar in Humanities and Social Thought at Yale University. He also co-instructs Winter Term (January) courses at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida. From 1997 to 1999 he was Ingeborg Rennert Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies at Barnard College.

Wiesel in 1987.

Wiesel has become a popular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust. As a political activist, he has advocated for many causes, including Israel, the plight of Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, the victims of apartheid in South Africa, Argentina's Desaparecidos, Bosnian victims of genocide in the former Yugoslavia, Nicaragua's Miskito Indians, and the Kurds. Conversely, he withdrew from his role as chair of the International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, and made efforts to abort the conference, in deference to Israeli objection to the inclusion of sessions on the Armenian genocide.

In 2004 he voiced support for intervention in Darfur, Sudan at the Darfur Emergency Summit convened at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York by the American Jewish World Service and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He also led a commission organized by the Romanian government to research and write a report, released in 2004, on the true history of the Holocaust in Romania and the involvement of the Romanian wartime regime in atrocities against Jews and other groups, including the Roma. The Romanian government accepted the findings in the report and committed to implementing the commission's recommendations for educating the public on the history of the Holocaust in Romania. The commission, formally called the International Commission for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, came to be called the Wiesel Commission in honor of his leadership.

Wiesel is the honorary chair of the Habonim Dror Camp Miriam Campership and Building Fund, and a member of the International Council of the New York–based Human Rights Foundation. On March 27, 2001, Wiesel appeared at the University of Florida for Jewish Awareness Month and was presented with an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the University of Florida by Dr. Charles Young.

In 2002, he inaugurated the Elie Wiesel Memorial House in Sighet in his childhood home.

Recent

President George W. Bush, joined by the Dalai Lama and Wiesel, Oct. 17, 2007, to the ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., for the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama

In early 2006, Wiesel traveled to Auschwitz with Oprah Winfrey, a visit which was broadcast as part of The Oprah Winfrey Show on May 24, 2006. Wiesel said that this would most likely be his last trip there. In September 2006, he appeared before the UN Security Council with actor George Clooney to call attention to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.

On November 30, 2006 Wiesel received an honorary knighthood in London in recognition of his work toward raising Holocaust education in the United Kingdom. On April 25, 2007, Wiesel was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters degree from the University of Vermont.

During the early 2007 selection process for the Kadima candidate for President of Israel, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reportedly offered Wiesel the nomination (and, as the ruling-party candidate and an apolitical figure, likely the presidency), but Wiesel "was not very interested". Shimon Peres was chosen as the Kadima candidate (and later President) instead. In 2007, Wiesel was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award. On April 9, 2008, Wiesel was presented with an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters at the City College of New York.

In 2007 the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity issued a letter condemning Armenian genocide denial that was signed by 53 Nobel laureates including Wiesel. Wiesel has repeatedly called Turkey's 90-year-old campaign to downplay its actions during the Armenian genocide a double killing.

Wiesel is a member of the International Advisory Board of NGO Monitor

On September 29, 2008, the Rochester College President Rubel Shelly, on its 50th anniversary, bestowed Wiesel with a plaque conferring on him as an honorary visiting professor of humanities.

On November 17, 2008, he received an honorary doctorate from the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel.

In December 2008, the Elie Wiesel Foundation lost nearly all of its assets (approximately $15.2 million USD) through Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, an experience Wiesel later spoke about at a Conde Nast roundtable.

In 2009, Wiesel criticized the Vatican over its lifting of the excommunication of controversial bishop Richard Williamson, a member of the Society of Saint Pius X.

On June 5, 2009, Wiesel accompanied US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel as they toured Buchenwald. Merkel and Wiesel each spoke about Buchenwald in personal terms, with Merkel considering the responsibility of Germans vis-à-vis Nazi history (National Socialist history), and Wiesel reflecting on the suffering and death of his father in the camp.

Wiesel returned to Hungary for the first official visit since the Holocaust between December 9–11, 2009 by the invitation of Rabbi Slomó Köves, executive rabbi of the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation and the Hungarian branch of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. During his visit Wiesel participated in a conference at the Upper House Chamber of the Hungarian Parliament, met Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai and President László Sólyom, and made a speech to the approximately 10,000 participants of an anti-racist gathering held in Faith Hall. The speech was broadcasted live by Magyar ATV, a nationwide television channel.

On May 4, 2010 Wiesel met with President Obama at the White House to discuss Middle East peace relations.

On May 20, 2011, Wiesel spoke at the 150th Commencement Ceremony of Washington University in St. Louis and was given an honorary degree.

On September 25, 2011, Wiesel spoke at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

Wiesel was devastated having lost the bulk of his fortune to Bernanke Madoffs Ponzi scheme. To add insult to injury, he was the unwitting victim of telephone hacking/wiretapping by the Israeli firm Amdocs.

2007 attack on Wiesel

On February 1, 2007, Wiesel was attacked in a San Francisco hotel by 22-year-old Holocaust denier Eric Hunt, who tried to drag Wiesel into a hotel room. Wiesel was not injured and Hunt fled the scene. Later, Hunt bragged about the incident on a Holocaust denial website. Approximately one month later, he was arrested and charged with multiple offenses. Hunt was convicted on July 21, 2008, and was sentenced to two years, but was given credit for time served and good behavior; he was released on probation and ordered to undergo psychological treatment. The jury convicted Hunt of three charges but dismissed the remaining charges of attempted kidnapping, stalking, and an additional count of false imprisonment, amid Hunt's withdrawal of his insanity plea. District Attorney Kamala Harris said, "Crimes motivated by hate are among the most reprehensible of offenses ... This defendant has been made to answer for an unwarranted and biased attack on a man who has dedicated his life to peace." At his sentencing hearing, Hunt apologized and insisted that he no longer denies the Holocaust; however, he continued for some time afterwards to maintain and update a (now defunct) blog that denied the Holocaust and was critical of prominent Jewish people, and has since started a new website that actively denies the Holocaust.

Controversy over historical and religious rights to Jerusalem

On April 18, 2010 in The New York Times and on 16 April for 3 newspapers, Wiesel wrote a full-paged advertisement in which he emphasized the Jewish connection to Jerusalem. He said that: "For me, the Jew that I am, Jerusalem is above politics. It is mentioned more than six hundred times in Scripture — and not a single time in the Koran." His position has been criticized by the Americans for Peace Now in an open letter: "Jerusalem is not just a Jewish symbol. It is also a holy city to billions of Christians and Muslims worldwide. It is Israel's capital, but it is also a focal point of Palestinian national aspirations". They also claimed that equal residential rights do not exist in the city. Wiesel has also been criticized in Israel. Haaretz published an article by Yossi Sarid which accused him of being out of touch with the realities of life in Jerusalem.

Extended quotation from the text:

"For me, the Jew that I am, Jerusalem is above politics. It belongs to the Jewish people and is much more than a city, it is what binds one Jew to another in a way that remains hard to explain. When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming. The first song I heard was my mother's lullaby about and for Jerusalem. Its sadness and its joy are part of our collective memory."

Wiesel was notably criticized by former DePaul University professor and political scientist Norman Finkelstein in his book The Holocaust Industry. Finkelstein accuses Wiesel of promoting the "uniqueness doctrine" which holds, according to Finkelstein, the Holocaust as the paramount of evil and therefore historically incomparable to other genocides. Finklestein also accuses Wiesel of playing down the importance of other genocides, especially the Armenian Genocide, and thwarting efforts of raising awareness of the genocide of the Romani people executed by the Nazis. Finkelstein cited Wiesel's lobbying for commemorating Jews alone (not the Romani people) in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., in addition to his numerous other assertions on the "uniqueness of Holocaust".

Works

  • Un di velt hot geshvign (Tsentral-Farband fun Poylishe Yidn in Argentine, 1956) ISBN 0-374-52140-9; (first version of Night)
  • Night (Hill and Wang 1958; 2006) ISBN 0-553-27253-5 (Personal account of the Holocaust)
  • Dawn (Hill and Wang 1961; 2006) ISBN 0-553-22536-7
  • Day, previously titled "The Accident" (Hill and Wang 1962; 2006) ISBN 0-553-58170-8
  • The Town Beyond the Wall (Atheneum 1964)
  • The Gates of the Forest (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1966)
  • The Jews of Silence (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1966) ISBN 0-935613-01-3
  • Legends of our Time (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1968)(Artistically depicted memories)
  • A Beggar in Jerusalem (Random House 1970)(Novel)
  • One Generation After (Random House 1970)
  • Souls on Fire (Random House 1972) ISBN 0-671-44171-X (First book of portraits and legends of Hasidic Masters: many of the most famous)
  • Night Trilogy (Hill and Wang 1972)
  • The Oath (Random House 1973) ISBN 0-935613-11-0
  • Ani Maamin (Random House 1973)
  • Zalmen, or the Madness of God (Random House 1974)
  • Messengers of God (Random House 1976) ISBN 0-671-54134-X (Biblical portraits)
  • A Jew Today (Random House 1978) ISBN 0-935613-15-3 (Essays and imaginative works on Jewish identity)
  • Four Hasidic Masters-and their struggle against melancholy (University of Notre Dame Press 1978)(Portraits of Hasidic Masters)
  • Images from the Bible (The Overlook Press 1980)
  • The Trial of God (Random House 1979)(Play)
  • The Testament (Summit 1981)
  • Five Biblical Portraits (University of Notre Dame Press 1981)(Biblical figures reinterpreted)
  • Somewhere a Master (Further Hasidic portraits, after "Souls on Fire") (Summit 1982)
  • The Golem (illustrated by Mark Podwal) (Summit 1983) ISBN 0-671-49624-7 (Children's book on the Jewish legend)
  • The Fifth Son (Summit 1985)
  • Against Silence (Holocaust Library 1985)
  • Twilight (Summit 1988)
  • The Six Days of Destruction (co-author Albert Friedlander, illustrated by Mark Podwal) (Paulist Press 1988)
  • A Journey of Faith (Donald I. Fine 1990)
  • From the Kingdom of Memory (Summit 1990)(essays and depictions after "A Jew Today")
  • Evil and Exile (University of Notre Dame Press 1990)
  • Sages and Dreamers (Summit 1991)(Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic and Hasidic figures)
  • The Forgotten (Summit 1992) ISBN 0-8052-1019-9
  • A Passover Haggadah (illustrated by Mark Podwal) (Simon and Schuster 1993) ISBN 0-671-73541-1 (Jewish liturgy)
  • All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, Vol. I, 1928–1969 (Knopf 1995) ISBN 0-8052-1028-8
  • Memoir in Two Voices, with François Mitterrand (Arcade 1996)
  • And the Sea is Never Full: Memoirs Vol. II, 1969 (Knopf 1999) ISBN 0-8052-1029-6
  • King Solomon and his Magic Ring (illustrated by Mark Podwal) (Greenwillow 1999)
  • Conversations with Elie Wiesel (Schocken 2001)
  • The Judges (Knopf 2002)
  • Wise Men and Their Tales (Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic and Hasidic figures) (Schocken 2003) ISBN 0-8052-4173-6
  • The Time of the Uprooted (Knopf 2005)
  • A Mad Desire to Dance (2009)
  • Rashi a biography (2009)
  • The Sonderberg Case (2010)

Additionally, as Wiesel has offered a unique and poetic articulation of traditional Jewish thought and identity today, other books sometimes carry introductions or reviews from him:

  • A Vanished World by Roman Vishniac, forward by Elie Wiesel (published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1986) ISBN 0-374-52023-2, ISBN 978-0-374-52023-6; classic photographs of Eastern European Jewish life from the 1930s

Critical analysis and appreciation of Wiesel's position in the history of literature:

  • Student Companion to Elie Wiesel (Student Companions to Classic Writers) Sanford Sternlicht (Greenwood Press, 2003) ISBN 0-313-32530-8, ISBN 978-0-313-32530-4 (Covers his personal and literary background, "Night", main novels, and one chapter on his most important non-fiction)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Elie Wiesel". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  2. Associated Press (16 January 2006). "Winfrey selects Wiesel's 'Night' for book club". Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  3. "The Nobel Peace Prize for 1986: Elie Wiesel". Nobelprize.org. 14 October 1986. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  4. ^ "Elie Wiesel (1928-)". Kirjasto.sci.fi. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
  5. Fine 1982:4.
  6. "The Life and Work of Wiesel". Public Broadcasting Service. 2002. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
  7. "Elie Wiesel Biography". Academy of Achievment. 22 October 2010. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
  8. "Eliezer Wiesel, 1986: Not caring is the worst evil" (PDF). Nobel Peace Laureates.
  9. Kanfer, Stefan (24 June 2001). "Author, Teacher, Witness". TIME. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  10. Donadio, Rachel (20 January 2008). "The Story of 'Night'". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  11. See the film Elie Wiesel Goes Home, directed by Judit Elek, narrated by William Hurt. ISBN 1-930545-63-0
  12. Sternlicht, Sanford V. (2003). Student Companion to Elie Wiesel. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. p. 7. ISBN 0-313-32530-8. {{cite book}}: More than one of |author= and |last= specified (help)
  13. Naomi Seidman, "Elie Wiesel and the Scandal of Jewish Rage", Jewish Social Studies 3:1 (Fall 1996), p. 5.
  14. Wiesel:1999, 18.
  15. Finkelstein, Norman G. (September 2003). The Holocaust Industry. Verso. p. 69. ISBN 185984488X. {{cite book}}: Text "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering" ignored (help) (2nd edition)
  16. Novick, Peter (1999). The Holocaust in American Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0395840090.
  17. Wiesel, Elie (14 July 2004). "On the Atrocities in Sudan". American Jewish World Service. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  18. "Article". Independent Florida Alligator. 23 March 2001.
  19. "Elie Wiesel Returns to his Home in Sighet, Romania". Embassy of Romania in the United States. 23 July 2002. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  20. "Oprah and Elie Wiesel Travel to Auschwitz". oprah.com. 1 January 2006. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  21. Cohen, Justin (30 November 2006). "Wiesel Receives Honorary Knighthood". TotallyJewish.com. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  22. Hoffman, Gil (18 October 2006). "Olmert backs Peres as next president". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  23. McAllister, Kristin (15 October 2007). "Dayton awards 2007 peace prizes". Dayton Daily News. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  24. Holthouse, David (Summer 2008). "State of Denial: Turkey Spends Millions to Cover Up Armenian Genocide". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  25. "International Advisory Board Profiles: Elie Wiesel". NGO Monitor. 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  26. "Holocaust survivor honored". Christian Chronicle.
  27. "Elie Wiesel will receive an honorary doctorate from the Weizmann Institute".
  28. Agence French Presse (AFP) (24 December 2008). "Wiesel Foundation loses nearly everything in Madoff scheme". Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  29. Pullella, Philip (28 January 2009). "Elie Wiesel attacks pope over Holocaust bishop". Reuters. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  30. "Visiting Buchenwald, Obama speaks of the lessons of evil". CNN. 5 June 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  31. Quatra.Net Kft. (10 November 2009). "Elie Wiesel Magyarországon" (in Hungarian). Stop.hu. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
  32. "Magyarországra jön Elie Wiesel" (in Hungarian). Hetek.hu. 13 November 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
  33. "Tízezres antifasiszta nagygyűlés Elie Wiesellel" (in Hungarian). atv.hu. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
  34. Associated Press (18 February 2007). "Police arrest man accused of attacking Wiesel: Holocaust-surviving Nobel laureate was allegedly accosted in elevator". MSNBC. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  35. "Man guilty in false imprisonment of Elie Wiesel". Reuters. 22 July 2008. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  36. "Court Reaches Verdict In Elie Wiesel Accosting Trial". NBC11.com.
  37. Van Derbeken, Jaxon (22 July 2008). "San Francisco Jury convicts man in attack on Elie Wiesel". SF Gate. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  38. Associated Press (18 August 2008). "Man gets two-year sentence for accosting Elie Wiesel". USA Today. Retrieved 27 August 2008.
  39. "Eric Hunt: Stop tormenting children with Holyhoax lies".
  40. "Holocaust Denier website". 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  41. "Elie Wiesel: Jerusalem is Above Politics (ad also placed in 3 newspapers on 16th April)". Arutz Sheva. 17 April 2010. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  42. "For Jerusalem". The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  43. Nir, Ori (16 April 2010). "APN responds to Wiesel ad on Jerusalem". Peace Now. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  44. Sarid, Yossi (18 April 2010). "For Jerusalem, a response to Elie Wiesel". Haaretz. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  45. Finkelstein, N. (2003) The Holocaust Industry, 2nd edition, pp. 44–45.
  46. Finkelstein, N. (2003) The Holocaust Industry, 2nd edition, pp. 75–76.

Bibliography

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  • Berenbaum, Michael: The Vision of the Void. Theological Reflections on the Works of Elie Wiesel, Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1979 ISBN 0-8195-6189-4 PA
  • Fonseca, Isabel: Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey, London, Vintage, 1996
  • Fine, Ellen S. Legacy of Night: The Literary Universe of Elie Wiesel. State University of New York Press, 1982. ISBN 0-87395-590-0 (paperback)
  • Rota, Olivier. Choisir le français pour exprimer l'indicible. Elie Wiesel, in Mythe et mondialisation. L'exil dans les littératures francophones, Actes du colloque organisé dans le cadre du projet bilatéral franco-roumain « Mythes et stratégies de la francophonie en Europe, en Roumanie et dans les Balkans », programme Brâcuşi des 8-9 septembre 2005, Editura Universităţii Suceava, 2006, pp. 47–55. Re-published in Sens, dec. 2007, pp. 659–668.
  • Wiesel, Elie. All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs. New York: Knopf, 1995.
  • Wiesel, Elie. And the Sea is Never Full: Memoirs 1969-. New York: Schocken, 1999.

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