Elie Wiesel Questions and Answers
Elie Wiesel
What message does Elie Wiesel want to convey in his speech "The Perils of Indifference"?
Elie Wiesel's speech "The Perils of Indifference" condenses the essence of its message into the title, though it is a more general condemnation of indifference than the word "perils" might suggest....
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How do paragraphs 15-16 contribute to the development of the text’s central idea?
I believe you may have miscounted by one, and it is actually paragraphs 16-17 that can be seen to develop the central ideas of Wiesel's Night, as you suggest. I'll quote them, the two brief...
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Why did Elie Wiesel become an atheist?
Eliezer Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928, and died on July 2, 2016. Wiesel is remembered as one of the most influential literary and social figures of the 20th century for his writings and...
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Does Elie Wiesel show any bias in his "The Perils of Indifference" speech?
I believe that Elie Wiesel always shows bias and does in this speech The Perils of Indifference as well. His bias is that the world and its people should not be indifferent to the suffering of the...
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Summarize Elie Wiesel’s acceptance speech upon being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in three sentences. Be sure to...
A summary of Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in just three sentences is tough—even more so when asked to avoid providing specific details. Below you'll find an example of one way you...
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In "The Perils of Indifference," why does Elie Wiesel think indifference on the part of America endangers the entire...
I agree with akannan's post to your question. I want to add that the kind of indefference that is being discussed by Elie Wiesel is the kind of head turning that the German people did during the...
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In Elie Wiesel's speech "The Perils of Indifference," one of the speaker's purposes seems to be to encourage the...
I am a great admirer of Elie Wiesel, and I mourn his passing. His mission was just and his work was important. He turned his loss and pain into a force for good. My father liberated a...
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To which emotion is Elie Wiesel trying to appeal in The Perils of Indifference?
Elie Wiesel was 15-years-old when he was imprisoned in and eventually liberated from German concentration camps. He has subsequently spent the next 70 years with one main mission: warning the rest...
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Analyze the audience to whom Wiesel is addressing in his speech "The Perils of Indifference."
The original question had to be edited down. I think that the audience Wiesel is addressing in his speech is a unique mix of individuals. On one hand, Wiesel is clearly mindful that part of his...
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How is the Holocaust portrayed in Maus and Night, and how does the format of each text make a difference on readers'...
There are several differences between the portrayals of the Holocaust in Maus and Night. Both books are about people who survived the holocaust; Maus is even subtitled A Survivor’s Tale. However,...
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What was Elie Wiesel's concentration camp number?
Eliezer (Elie) Wiesel is arguably the most well known Holocaust survivor. He and his family lived in Sighet, and when Wiesel was sixteen the Wiesels and the other Jews in his community were...
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When Wiesel accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, he said that “indifference" is the greatest source of evil and danger in...
The original question had to be edited. I invite you to resubmit the second question in another question. Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize speech stresses the need to overcome indifference. For...
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What is the main difference between Night and Dawn?
I think that the main difference between both works is that one is a narrative of what happens during the Holocaust and the other one deals with the implications of consciousness after it. The...
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Explore and explain Elie Wiesel's reasons for writing.
Elie Wiesel was a prominent writer in many different genres. He was a journalist, an academic, a novelist, and a playwright. Among his reasons for writing were the simple facts that he was a writer...
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Is the argument in "The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel a logical argument?
I think that the arguments presented in Wiesel's speech are highly logical and force democratic societies that stand for freedom and tolerance to examine their own policies and predispositions....
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What does the author mean by "Better an unjust God than an indifferent one" in "The Perils of Indifference"?
I think is what the author is trying to say is that it is better that there is a God who cares than one who does not care at all. The word "unjust" means that sometimes things happen that cannot be...
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Explain the following quotes from Elie Wiesel's speech upon receiving the Nobel Price for Peace in 1986, and how do...
Elie Wiesel is a survivor the greatest of mass murder in history, the Holocaust. As a young man, he was sent to the most notorious concentration camps run by Nazi Germany, Buchenwald and...
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In "The Perils of Indifference," what's the rhetorical purpose of referring to the new millennium and the legacy of...
In his speech, Elie Wiesel is trying to persuade people that they need to care more about other people. He is saying that they have to stop being indifferent about the terrible things that happen...
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When Wiesel accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, he said that “indifference" is the greatest source of evil and danger in...
One of Wiesel's strengths is that his work operates as both historical, but also ethical. Wiesel's work is dedicated to the proposition that human beings have a role in impacting the lives of...
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In "The Perils of Indifference," Wiesel defines indifference as a "strange and unnatural state." What is your...
In his 1999 speech at the White House, Elie Wiesel asserts that indifference is a “friend of the enemy” that always “benefits the aggressor.” His definition suggests that apathy is just as bad as...
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In the poem, "Never Shall I Forget," what are the flames that Wiesel refers to?
In Night, Elie Wiesel tells of arriving at Auschwitz, a concentration camp. Initially, Elie was happy to be able to stay with his father, but his happiness quickly turns to fear and dread when one...
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Examine the subject matter in "The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel.
The original question had to be edited down. I would say that the base subject matter of Wiesel's speech is the how the ethical position of indifference is tantamount to perpetrating cruelty....
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What is a common central message shared by Night, "The Perils of Indifference," and "A God who Remembers"?
The central message shared by all three is this: indifference allows evil to triumph, but indifference can be overcome through the sharing of memories. Through his writing and speeches, Elie Wiesel...
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Why did Wiesel feel that creating the Holocaust Museum was important?
In September of 1979, referring to the Holocaust Museum, (Wiesel was the first chair of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council), Eli Wiesel spoke about the relevance of remembering the past so as to...
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What was it like for Elie Wiesel after the war?
In 1945, Jewish man Elie Wiesel was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp. He did not let his traumatizing concentration camp experiences keep him from living an active life. He was a...
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Briefly describe Wiesel's life after the camps. Give a timeline.
Elie Wiesel was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp on April 11, 1945. He spent two years in a refugee home in France, during which time he learned French and developed an interest in...
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Some detailed description of either of the camps where Elie was confined (Auschwitz or Buchenwald). Explain what life...
Auschwitz, Dacchau and Buchenwald were "death" camps or "extermination" camps. The main reason a prisoner was sent to one of these camps was for extermination. Zyklon-B gas was the cheapest, most...
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Discuss the life of Elie Wiesel since his liberation from Buchenwald in 1945.
Elie spent some time in an orphanage shortly after his liberation. Afterwards, he attended school in France and eventually found out that his two older sisters had survived the concentration...
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That deals with Nazi medical experimentation on prisoners.What were they looking for?What were the experiments?What...
The purpose for most of the medical experiementation done on live humans was three-fold. The first order of business was to use science and technology to create a "superior Arian race". There were...
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Can you please give me a good idea for a Holocaust project using Wiesel's Night Trilogy?
I think that any insight you receive here on enotes would have to be secondary to what the expectations of your assignment is and what your instructor is asking. This might be of critical...
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What are some contemporary example of genocide (e.g. Bosnia, Rwanda, Iraq, Darfur ect).
Unfortunately, things like this have been with us for at least six thousand years. Just since the end of the Soviet Union there have been multiple incidents in the Balkans, where such massacres...
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Discuss the life of Elie Wiesel since his liberation from Buchenwald in 1945.
Wiesel has served as the moral conscious of the world in regard to genocide and silence since being liberated from the camp and "seeing a corpse stare back at me." He emerged as a journalist and...