Elie Wiesel was a renowned Romanian-American author, professor, and political activist. He is best known for his contributions as a Holocaust survivor, having written over fifty books that draw from his personal experiences and advocate for peace and human dignity. Wiesel was born in Romania in 1928 to a Jewish family of Hungarian descent and survived the Holocaust after being imprisoned in several concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
Wiesel's most famous work is "Night," a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust. The book has been translated into over thirty languages and has become a foundational text in Holocaust literature. In addition to "Night," Wiesel wrote over forty other books, including novels, essays, and plays, that have been widely recognized for their literary merit and moral significance.
Throughout his life, Wiesel was an active advocate for peace, human rights, and Holocaust education. He received numerous awards for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, in recognition of his "practical work in the cause of peace." The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Wiesel for his "message of peace, atonement and human dignity" and his struggle to come to terms with the "total humiliation and contempt for humanity" he witnessed during the Holocaust. Wiesel's work has had a profound impact on Holocaust education and has helped to raise awareness of the importance of promoting peace and human dignity in the face of violence and discrimination.
The Night Trilogy Books
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Night
1956
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Dawn
1960
3
Day
1961
Standalone Novels
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The Town Beyond the Wall
1962
2
The Gates of the Forest
1964
3
A Beggar in Jerusalem
1968
4
The Oath
1970
5
The Testament
1980
6
The Golem
1983
7
The Fifth Son
1983
8
Twilight
1987
9
The Forgotten
1989
10
The Judges
1999
11
The Time of the Uprooted
2003
12
A Mad Desire to Dance
2006
13
The Sonderberg Case
2008
14
Hostage
2010
Plays
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Title
Year
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1
Zalman Madness God
1975
2
The Trial of God
1979
Collections
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Year
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An Ethical Compass
2010
2
The Tale of a Niggun
2020
3
Filled with Fire and Light
2021
The Memoirs
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All Rivers Run to the Sea
1994
2
And the Sea is Never Full
1998
Non-Fiction Books
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Souls on Fire
1958
2
Jews of Silence
1966
3
Legends of Our Time
1968
4
One Generation After
1970
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Messengers of God
1975
6
A Jew Today
1977
7
Four Hasidic Masters
1978
8
Five Biblical Portraits
1981
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Somewhere A Master
1982
10
Against Silence
1985
11
Evil and Exile
1988
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Evil and Exile (With: Jon Rothschild, Jody Gladding, Michael de Saint-Cheron)
1988
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The Six Days of Destruction
1988
14
From the Kingdom of Memory
1990
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A Journey of Faith (With: John Joseph O'Connor)
1990
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A Journey of Faith
1990
17
Sages and Dreamers
1991
18
Conversations with Elie Wiesel (With: Richard D. Heffner)
1991
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Conversations with Elie Wiesel
1991
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In Dialog and Dilemma With Elie Wiesel
1991
21
Passover Haggadah
1993
22
Memoir in Two Voices
1995
23
Wise Men and Their Tales
2000
24
After the Darkness
2002
25
Rashi
2009
26
Open Heart
2012
Jewish Encounters Books
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The Life of David (By: Robert Pinsky)
2005
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Maimonides (By: Sherwin B. Nuland)
2005
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Barney Ross (By: Douglas Century)
2006
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Betraying Spinoza (By: Rebecca Goldstein)
2006
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Emma Lazarus (By: Esther Schor)
2006
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The Wicked Son (By: David Mamet)
2006
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Marc Chagall (By: Jonathan Wilson)
2007
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Jews and Power (By: Ruth R. Wisse)
2007
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Resurrecting Hebrew (By: Ilan Stavans)
2008
10
Benjamin Disraeli (By: Adam Kirsch)
2008
11
Rashi
2009
12
A Fine Romance (By: David Lehman)
2009
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The Jewish Body (By: Melvin Konner)
2009
14
Yehuda Halevi (By: Hillel Halkin)
2010
15
Hillel: If Not Now, When? (By: Joseph Telushkin)
2010
16
Burnt Books (By: Rodger Kamenetz)
2010
17
Ben-Gurion (By: Shimon Peres, David Landau)
2011
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The Eichmann Trial (By: Deborah E. Lipstadt)
2011
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Sacred Trash (By: Adina Hoffman)
2011
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When General Grant Expelled the Jews (By: Jonathan Sarna)
2012
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The Book of Job (By: Harold S. Kushner)
2012
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The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem (By: Jeremy Dauber)
2013
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Menachem Begin (By: Daniel Gordis)
2014
24
Abraham (By: Alan M. Dershowitz)
2015
25
Where the Jews Aren't (By: Masha Gessen)
2016
Elie Wiesel Anthologies
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Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology
1995
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Writers on Writing
2001
3
I Am Jewish
2004
4
Post-Holocaust Jewish–Christian Dialogue: After the Flood, before the Rainbow