All Rivers Run to the Sea (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Elie Wiesel
- First Published: 1994
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Philosophy
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, World War II, Spiritual life or spirituality, Jews or Jewish life, Ethics, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Genocide
The Work
Taking the title of his autobiography from Ecclesiastes, Elie Wiesel presents the important people and events of his life, beginning with his childhood in Sighet, Romania, and culminating in his 1969 marriage in Jerusalem. Wiesel, through stories and remembrances, tells of a family full of piety, moral courage, and selfless devotion to Judaism. From his mother and grandmother, Elie learned goodness and love; from his grandfather, the Jewish legends he would later use in fiction and essays; from his father, rectitude and altruism. His teachers, at various times of his...
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