Gleanings about Night from Wiesel's memoirs.
| Publisher | Association for Religion and Intellectual Life |
| Publication | Cross Currents |
| Subject | Education |
| Format | Newsletter |
| ISSN | 0011-1953 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Published | 2007-09-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Carl D. Evans |
| Person | Evaluation | Elie Wiesel |
| Person | Social aspects | Elie Wiesel |
| Person | Works | Elie Wiesel |
| Related Content | Type |
| Night | eNotes |
Elie Wiesel is widely acknowledged as one of the world's great teachers.
There is indeed much to learn from him as a witness to the Holocaust, a prize-winning author, and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, but I have always wondered what made him the great scholar, teacher, witness, and humanitarian that he is.
What accounts for his remarkable career? Besides the obvious ordeal of the Holocaust itself, was there some formative event or circumstance that enabled him to write so powerfully about the horrendous experiences we read about in Night? And what gave him the...
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