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Elie Wiesel

Confronting the Silence
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2023

About this book

An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

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Joseph Berger was a New York Times reporter, columnist, and editor for thirty years, and he continues to contribute periodically. He has taught urban affairs at the City University of New York’s Macaulay Honors College. He is the author of Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust and lives in New York City.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Introduction

    1
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    1. Sighet, My Sighet

    5
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    2. Deportation

    15
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    3. Camps of Death

    25
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    4. Recovering

    41
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    5. Cub Reporter

    56
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    6. A Hungarian in Paris

    63
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    7. Night and Fog

    69
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    8. Coming to America

    80
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    9. Writer

    87
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    10. Survivor

    97
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    11. Return to Sighet

    107
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    12. A Russian Revolution Perhaps even

    111
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    13. Love and War

    118
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    14. Transitions

    130
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    15. The Israel Conundrum

    141
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    16. From Writer to Torchbearer

    147
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    17. A Boston Professor

    156
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    18. The Holocaust and the Arts

    163
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    19. Museums and Memory

    170
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    20. World Stage

    189
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    21. “To Help the Dead Vanquish Death”

    197
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    22. The Bitburg Fiasco

    205
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    23. Family Time

    221
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    24. Nobelist

    238
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    25. Catalyst for Change

    250
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    26. Reconciliations and Reprimands

    256
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    27. Reversals

    275
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    28. Memories

    290
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    Notes

    301
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    Credits

    325
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    Acknowledgments

    327
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    Index

    331
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
May 23, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9780300271225
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
360
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1 b-w illus.
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This book is in the series
Jewish Lives
This book is in the series
Jewish Lives
https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300271225
eBook ISBN: 9780300271225
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