Elie Wiesel

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
# Title Year
1 Night 1956
2 Dawn 1960
3 Day 1961
Standalone Novels
# Title Year
1 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
# Title Year
1 Zalman Madness God 1975
2 The Trial of God 1979
Collections
# Title Year
1 An Ethical Compass 2010
2 The Tale of a Niggun 2020
3 Filled with Fire and Light 2021
The Memoirs
# Title Year
1 All Rivers Run to the Sea 1994
2 And the Sea is Never Full 1998
Non-Fiction Books
# Title Year
1 Souls on Fire 1958
2 Jews of Silence 1966
3 Legends of Our Time 1968
4 One Generation After 1970
5 Messengers of God 1975
6 A Jew Today 1977
7 Four Hasidic Masters 1978
8 Five Biblical Portraits 1981
9 Somewhere A Master 1982
10 Against Silence 1985
11 Evil and Exile 1988
12 Evil and Exile (With: Jon Rothschild, Jody Gladding, Michael de Saint-Cheron) 1988
13 The Six Days of Destruction 1988
14 From the Kingdom of Memory 1990
15 A Journey of Faith (With: John Joseph O'Connor) 1990
16 A Journey of Faith 1990
17 Sages and Dreamers 1991
18 Conversations with Elie Wiesel (With: Richard D. Heffner) 1991
19 Conversations with Elie Wiesel 1991
20 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
# Title Year
1 The Life of David (By: Robert Pinsky) 2005
2 Maimonides (By: Sherwin B. Nuland) 2005
3 Barney Ross (By: Douglas Century) 2006
4 Betraying Spinoza (By: Rebecca Goldstein) 2006
5 Emma Lazarus (By: Esther Schor) 2006
6 The Wicked Son (By: David Mamet) 2006
7 Marc Chagall (By: Jonathan Wilson) 2007
8 Jews and Power (By: Ruth R. Wisse) 2007
9 Resurrecting Hebrew (By: Ilan Stavans) 2008
10 Benjamin Disraeli (By: Adam Kirsch) 2008
11 Rashi 2009
12 A Fine Romance (By: David Lehman) 2009
13 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
18 The Eichmann Trial (By: Deborah E. Lipstadt) 2011
19 Sacred Trash (By: Adina Hoffman) 2011
20 When General Grant Expelled the Jews (By: Jonathan Sarna) 2012
21 The Book of Job (By: Harold S. Kushner) 2012
22 The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem (By: Jeremy Dauber) 2013
23 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
# Title Year
1 Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology 1995
2 Writers on Writing 2001
3 I Am Jewish 2004
4 Post-Holocaust Jewish–Christian Dialogue: After the Flood, before the Rainbow 2014
5 One for Each Night 2023