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Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Gold Medal, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel offers an unforgettable account of Hitler's horrific reign of terror in Night. This definitive edition features a new translation from the original French by Wiesel's wife and frequent translator, Marion Wiesel.

Né en 1928 à Sighet en Transylvanie, Elie Wiesel était un adolescent lorsqu'en 1944 il fut déporté avec sa famille à Auschwitz puis à Birkenau. "La nuit" est le récit des souvenirs qu'Elie Wiesel conserve de la séparation d'avec sa mère et sa petite sœur qu'il ne reverra plus jamais et du camp où avec son père il partage la faim, le froid, les coups, les tortures... et la honte de perdre sa dignité d'homme quand il ne répondra pas à son père mourant.

With the coming of dawn is the coming of death for a captured English officer in British-controlled Palestine. Elisha, a young Israeli freedom fighter, is his executioner. Ordered to kill the officer in reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner, Elisha thinks about his past, a sorrowful memory of the nightmare of Nazi death camps. As the only surviving member of his family, he dreamt of a wonderful future in his promised homeland.

First published in English under the title The Accident, Elie Wiesel's third novel in his trilogy of Holocaust literature has now adopted Wiesel's original title: Day. In the opening scene, a Holocaust survivor and successful journalist steps off a curb in New York City directly into the pathway of an oncoming cab. As he struggles between life and death, the journalist recalls the effects of the historical tragedy of the Holocaust on himself and his family.

In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual struggle, to his emergence as a witness for...

From the Nobel laureate and author of the masterly Night, a deeply felt, beautifully written novel of morality, guilt, and innocence. Despite personal success, Yedidyah—a theater critic in New York City, husband to a stage actress, father to two sons—finds himself increasingly drawn to the...

Elie Wiesel’s heartbreaking narrative poem about history, immortality, and the power of song. Based on an actual event that occurred during World War II. It is the evening before the holiday of Purim, and the Nazis have given the ghetto’s leaders twenty-four hours to turn over ten Jews to...

One of the most esteemed writers and thinkers in the world, international best-selling author Elie Wiesel is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient. His first book, Night, is one of the most enduring classics of Holocaust literature. In this powerful suspense story, five survivors of a plane crash take shelter in the home of an enigmatic man. He locks them in, informs them he is their judge, and announces the least worthy of them will be sentenced to death.

Here are magnificent insights into the lives of biblical prophets and kings, talmudic sages, and Hasidic rabbis from the internationally acclaimed writer, Nobel laureate, and one of the world’s most honored and beloved teachers. “This posthumous collection encourages a path toward purpose...

A searing exploration of a man haunted by the horrors of the twentieth century, a man who feels he must be going mad but who finds a way out of the darkness. Doriel is a European transplanted to New York who carries with him a profound sense of desperation and loss. His mother, a...

From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical audio book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages. Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged by outbursts of anti-Semitism and decimated by the Crusades.

« Il est la première référence. Le premier secours. Grâce à une étincelle venant de lui comme un sourire, tout s’éclaire. » Ainsi parle Elie Wiesel, qui rend un hommage poignant, dans ce livre bref et singulier, à l’une des figures majeures de la pensée juive : Salomon, fils d’Isaac, rabbin de Troyes au XIème siècle, plus connu sous le nom de Rashi.

De violentes douleurs à la poitrine, un médecin rassurant : « Rien au coeur ! » Quelques jours après, pourtant, ce dernier flanche. Incrédule, récalcitrant, Élie Wiesel est opéré à New York, in extremis. Au bloc, il a toutes les raisons de croire qu’il va s’enfoncer dans un silence définitif. Ce passage de la vie à la mort–tout sauf un vide, découvre-t-il–se peuple d’émotions, de visages, de mémoires, d’interrogations sur lui-même et sur Dieu. Bilan d’une existence et d’une mission.

Em uma cidade que hoje é parte da Romênia, Eliezer se dedicava aos estudos judaicos quando, em 1944, sua família foi transferida para os guetos e, depois, aos campos de concentração. A mãe e a irmã mais nova foram mortas logo ao chegar, enquanto Elie e o pai seguiram juntos na luta pela sobrevivência. Com apenas 15 anos, ele enfrentou a fome, o frio e a tortura, testemunhando a morte das piores formas possíveis. Foi com A noite que ele enfim reencontrou sua voz 10 anos após o Holocausto, descobrindo na preservação da memória um sentido para sua sobrevivência.

What would you say to a young stranger who wishes to die? What arguments would you use to restore his will to live? What ideas and ideals would you invoke to save him? Faced with that dilemma, the principal character of Elie Wiesel's magnificent novel - an old wanderer named Azriel - decides to tell a story: his own. The very one he was not supposed to tell, the one he had pledged to keep to himself.

Translated by Marion Wiesel A profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of his life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time. Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on his life. Emotions...

Malkiel Rosenbaum agrees begrudgingly to revisit the events of his father’s wartime experiences in Romania fighting the Nazis and, as a result, discovers another side to the stories, and a truth his own generation is in danger of forgetting.

From Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and author of Night, a charged, deeply moving novel about the legacy of the Holocaust in today’s troubled world and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg—professional storyteller, writer and beloved...

Ciò che affermo è che questa testimonianza, che viene dopo tante altre e che descrive un abominio del quale potremmo credere che nulla ci è ormai sconosciuto, è tuttavia differente, singolare, unica. (...) Il ragazzo che ci racconta qui la sua storia era un eletto di Dio. Non viveva dal risveglio della sua coscienza che per Dio, nutrito di Talmud, desideroso di essere iniziato alla Cabala, consacrato all'Eterno.

Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (September 30, 1928 to 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. In 1986, Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for being a messenger to mankind: his message is one of peace, atonement and dignity.