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Elie Wiesel

Born

in Sighet, Kingdom of Romania

September 30, 1928

Died

July 02, 2016

Website

http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/

Genre

Memoir, Fiction

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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel 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 his political activities Wiesel became a regular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust and remained a strong defender of human rights during his lifetime. He also advocated for many other causes like the state of Israel and against Hamas and victims of oppression including Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, the apartheid in South Africa, the Bosnian genocide, Sudan, the Kurds and the Armenian genocide, Argentina's Desaparecidos or Nicara ...more

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Elie Wiesel’s books

Average rating: 4.35 · 1,344,879 ratings · 44,905 reviews · 326 distinct works • Similar authors

	Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator), François Mauriac (Foreword) 4.37 avg rating — 1,276,770 ratings — published 1956 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dawn by Elie Wiesel, Frances Frenaye (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 21,426 ratings — published 1960	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Day by Elie Wiesel, Anne Borchardt (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 12,979 ratings — published 1961 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident by Elie Wiesel, François Mauriac (Foreword), Stella Rodway (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 5,113 ratings — published 1961 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Open Heart by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 2,539 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trial of God: (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod) by Elie Wiesel, Robert McAfee Brown (Introduction), Matthew Fox (Afterword) 4.13 avg rating — 1,440 ratings — published 1979 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Rivers Run to the Sea 4.12 avg rating — 1,275 ratings — published 1994 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twilight by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 1,063 ratings — published 1987 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hostage by Elie Wiesel, Catherine Temerson (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 1,069 ratings — published 2010 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Mad Desire to Dance 3.28 avg rating — 953 ratings — published 2006 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Elie Wiesel

The Night Trilogy (3 books)
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Elie Wiesel,

Anne Borchardt (Translator)

4.36 avg rating — 1,316,239 ratings

The Memoirs (2 books)
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Elie Wiesel,

Marion Wiesel (Translator)

4.14 avg rating — 1,505 ratings

Quotes by Elie Wiesel (?)

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

41706 likes

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy

5118 likes

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: deep, friendship, life, love, obsession, sharing

3087 likes

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