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NONFICTION
Released: May 17, 1979
THE TRIAL OF GOD
by Elie Wiesel, translated by Marion Wiesel
"Finding a shape for the ultimate seriousness that infuses his thought remains Wiesel's thorn; his success here again is only intermittent."
Inside "the kingdom of night"—the concentration camp—Wiesel actually witnessed a trial which put God up as the accused, charged with being either accepting of or blind to the murder of HIS chosen people. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 12, 1978
A JEW TODAY
by Elie Wiesel, translated by Marion Wiesel
"No cumulative effect but, with the Holocaust, a strong, inescapable impact."
Recent essays. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 1974
ANI MAAMIN: A SONG LOST AND FOUND AGAIN = UN CHANT PERDU ET RETROUVE
by Elie Wiesel

"I believe" — from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, given new meaning by the Jews in the camps, an article of faith reaffirmed yet again here as a cantata. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 15, 1973
THE OATH: A NOVEL
by Elie Wiesel, translated by Marion Wiesel
"Demanding and rewarding."
Again Wiesel's richly somber, close and faintly cantorial prose flows over and repolishes the same impenetrable mysteries: that the massacre of innocents transmits a lifelong burden to the survivor; and that the survivor, both doomed and blessed, is forced to confront the knowledge of death which is "not a solution but a question, the most human question of all." Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 16, 1970
ONE GENERATION AFTER
by Elie Wiesel
"Wiesel's tales, lectures and commemorative griefs are moving, penetrating, often raspingly excessive — the result perhaps of attempting an honest stance before the inexplicable."
To convey the truth of the holocaust in its totality...(the writer) must add as well the silence left behind by millions of unknowns...One cannot conceive of the holocaust except as a mystery, begotten by the dead." Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 26, 1969
A BEGGAR IN JERUSALEM: A NOVEL
by Elie Wiesel
"For many, a meaningful prophecy."
Throughout his published works, Wiesel, unique among Jewish authors who have survived the holocaust, has continually moved forward into the current Jewish experience, joining terror to hope, death to continuity, anonymity to identity. Read full book review >