All Rivers Run to the Sea (World Philosophers and Their Works)
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
Context
Autobiographies pour out names and faces, and memoirs contain details about encounters large and small. While conforming to those conventions, All Rivers Run to the Sea is unconventional because it shows how Elie Wiesel’s moral and spiritual outlook emerged from the twentieth century’s greatest darkness, the Holocaust. Three fundamental facts inform Wiesel’s story: He is a Jew, a writer, and a survivor of the Holocaust, which was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of nearly six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators....
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