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Elie Wiesel

Born

in Sighet, Kingdom of Romania

September 30, 1928

Died

July 02, 2016

Website

http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/

Genre

Memoir, Fiction

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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
In his political activities Wiesel became a regular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust and remained a strong defender of human rights during his lifetime. He also advocated for many other causes like the state of Israel and against Hamas and victims of oppression including Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, the apartheid in South Africa, the Bosnian genocide, Sudan, the Kurds and the Armenian genocide, Argentina's Desaparecidos or Nicara ...more

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Elie Wiesel’s books

Average rating: 4.35 · 1,317,789 ratings · 43,945 reviews · 319 distinct works • Similar authors

	Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator), François Mauriac (Foreword) 4.37 avg rating — 1,250,835 ratings — published 1956 — 259 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dawn by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel 3.84 avg rating — 20,796 ratings — published 1960 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Day by Elie Wiesel, Anne Borchardt (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 12,585 ratings — published 1961 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident by Elie Wiesel, François Mauriac (Foreword), Stella Rodway (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 5,003 ratings — published 1961 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Open Heart by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 2,491 ratings — published 2012 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trial of God: (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod) by Elie Wiesel, Robert McAfee Brown (Introduction), Matthew Fox (Afterword) 4.13 avg rating — 1,409 ratings — published 1979 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Rivers Run to the Sea 4.13 avg rating — 1,263 ratings — published 1994 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twilight by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 1,045 ratings — published 1987 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hostage by Elie Wiesel, Catherine Temerson (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 1,058 ratings — published 2010 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Mad Desire to Dance 3.28 avg rating — 941 ratings — published 2006 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Elie Wiesel

The Night Trilogy (3 books)
by

Elie Wiesel,

Anne Borchardt (Translator)

4.36 avg rating — 1,289,199 ratings

The Memoirs (2 books)
by

Elie Wiesel,

Marion Wiesel (Translator)

4.14 avg rating — 1,488 ratings

Quotes by Elie Wiesel (?)

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

41560 likes

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy

5104 likes

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: deep, friendship, life, love, obsession, sharing

3086 likes

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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

233 votes, 36.0%

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

211 votes, 32.6%

Night by Elie Wiesel

128 votes, 19.8%

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

76 votes, 11.7%

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