Elie Wiesel (Ethics (Ready Reference series))

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Wiesel’s writings have made him the messenger of the Jewish Holocaust dead and the prophetic muse of the post-Auschwitz age. This fact may explain why he wrote his first published memoir, Night, in Yiddish, the lingua franca of the murdered Jewish people, rather than in French, the language in which he wrote all of his other works. Wiesel writes masterfully, with a Kafkaesque pen, and his themes include pogroms, the destruction of the shtetls (Jewish villages), songs of mourning and exile, the madness of the Messiah, divine love and...

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