books by Elie Wiesel     books:       Night (Oprah's Book Club)617 reviews Elie Wiesel Hill and Wang, 2006 Simple, thought provoking I've never read such a short book with such a huge impact. When I read this as part of a college class, we learned that it was originally some 600 pages long. Then the author decided to cut it down to the absolute bare bones - and it worked brilliantly. Too much writing could cushion the devastation - getting bogged down in details could allow a reader to become jaded. However, such stark ...             Dawn8 reviews Elie Wiesel Hill and Wang, 2006 Excellent thinking book & totally different from Night First off, this is not Night 2. I naively expected that when publisher's try to frame them as part of a 'trilogy'. Night is absolutely and without bar one of the most fantastic books I have read in my life. This is not just another chapter of that. And it is not a sequel. It is an incredibly profound, and beautifully written meditation on the journey of many Holocaust survivors -- but not ...             Letters to My Mother: A Message of Love, A Plea for Freedom Ingrid Betancourt, Lorenzo Delloye-Betancourt, ... Abrams Image, 2008 On December 1, 2007, during the arrest of several guerillas in Bogotá, the Colombian police confiscated a short video clip of political hostage Ingrid Betancourt. Accompanying the video was a twelve-page letter, dated October 24, 2007, written by Betancourt to her mother and family. Kidnapped on February 23, 2002, Betancourt has become an international symbol in the struggle for liberty and the fight against barbarity. Before being captured ...             All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs22 reviews Elie Wiesel Schocken, 1996 disagree with "mediocre" label I found this a very compelling read, lasting over several readings. It's true the author did not stick tightly to chronological order, but anyone who has read his fiction knows his style tends to be very esoteric and rather free-floating (I personally do not care for his fiction, which I admit I do find to go over my head). However, as a reader, I certainly got a feel for emotions he felt ...             The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day2 reviews Elie Wiesel Hill and Wang, 2008 A Must Read This is a must read - for everyone! A real, raw and riviting account of Ellie Wiesel's personal experience during the Holocaust. Starting when no one believed the pending danger of war... to the formation of ghettos and finally life in a concentration camp. His Nobel Peace Price Acceptance Speech at the end of the book is an important bonus! We must NEVER FORGET... Ellie's account will help.             Day: A Novel5 reviews Elie Wiesel Hill and Wang, 2006 Truly Heartfelt I disagree with the other comments. Of course, this may not be for everyone. It was full of self and ramblings. I, however, felt very much connected to this story. Especially with all its confusion. I think that was the point. He wrote this story so beautifully, I couldn't put it down.             After the Darkness: Reflections on the Holocaust6 reviews Elie Wiesel Schocken, 2002 Yes of course, ""Reflection on the Holocaust""!!! Those who do not believe that there was, and still is, a legend in the name of 'Holocaust' are kindly invited to visit Ghaza and Lebanon (North and notably South) to look and see how such a word is actually pronounced. They will see a thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life through a carnage of fire and cold-blood slaughter of civilians. Thank you.             Night924 reviews Elie Wiesel Bantam, 1982 A simple, succinct, harrowing story This is the true story of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. A religious Jew, Wiesel was a young boy during the German invasion. He and his family were taken captive by the Nazis and put into the concentration camps where he witnessed atrocities that destroyed his family and shattered his faith. Told simply and succintly, this first person account is haunting. Wiesel speaks with a numb ...             Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion10 reviews Phil Borges, Dalai Lama Rizzoli International Publications, 1996 Pure feelings you want to share Each of these faces is pure incarnation of a human feeling...from joy to worriness, from amazement to pride.Some of these people will haunt you for long after you turn the last page (See little 4 year old Pemba's eyes...) Sent the book to friends overseas...just the kind of work you want to share with your closest ones.             The Trial of God6 reviews Elie Wiesel Schocken, 1995 A Trial of Faith While interred in Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel witnessed a trial. While such things are not unusual, this trial was. It was unusual because of the defendant: God. God was tried for violating the covenant by turning his back in silence on the Jewish people in their greatest hour of need. God was tried in absentia, without anyone present being willing to take on the role of God's defense attorney. ...             And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969-8 reviews Elie Wiesel Schocken, 2000 An Inspirational Man, An Important Book Easily one of the best autobiographies of the last half of the century (when coupled with Volume One). It is almost hard to believe that a man with such vision, such drive, such intelligence could have written almost an understated autobiography which reads as easily as any novel on your summer reading list. I strongly reccomend that anyone who wants to learn and be inspired by one man's ...             Messengers of God4 reviews Elie Wiesel Simon & Schuster, 1985 Classic Midrash in the Modern Age Elie Wiesel is one of the most important thinkers of the modern era. His insights into the human condition are possibly the most profound to come from the Holocaust In Messengers of G-d, Wiesel takes classic characters using classic midrash and make them utterly modern. This book might be a surprise to those familiar with Wiesel only through his Holocaust texts, but it should also be a pleasant ...             The Forgotten2 reviews Elie Wiesel Schocken, 1995 Moving on several levels The Forgotten explores both the holocaust experiences of the aging father, and his new horror of losing his memory. Both are intensely moving, whether seen through his own eyes, or those of his son struggling to fulfill a difficult obligation. Like all of Elie Wiesel's writings, this book stays with you and influences your own thinking on many topics. A sad story, unforgettable. Professor ...             From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History4 reviews Arthur Kurzweil Jossey-Bass, 2004 Part detective story, part spiritual quest,, part how-to text Along with the new Avotaynu Guide, indispensable. Kurzweil's book is not as lengthy and technical as the Avotaynu book, nor as concise and tightly organized as Barbara Krasner-Khait's Discovering Your Jewish Ancestors (2001). But what it offers is something unheard of in genealogy textbooks - a work that reads like a novel. He is not afraid to be expansive and anecdotal, even chatty. His ...             Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters4 reviews Elie Wiesel Simon & Schuster, 1982 A journey through Hassidism Hassidism, its tales, legends, and masters, has always been a source of mystery and confusion. "Souls on Fire" is a journey through Hassidism. Traveling from the source and further development of this unique Jewish religious manifestation is a joy when led by the mind and sould of Elie Wiesel. His personal and emotional input, the tales and legends included throughout the book, and his ...             Dawn31 reviews Elie Wiesel Bantam, 1982 Not Night, But Excellent In Its Own Right Elie Wiesel's Night is one of the most horrifying, moving accounts of the Holocaust experience that I have read. This book, Dawn, is sometimes referred to as a sequel to Night; however, I think that is misleading. Though readers of Night will see the influence of the author's concentration camp experience reflected in this book, Dawn is something very different. The most obvious difference, ...             Holy Brother: Inspiring Stories and Enchanted Tales about Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach7 reviews Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum Jason Aronson, 2002 an enlightened man of love who walked among us Holy Brother is a book that everyone, whether Jewish or not, whether on a spiritual path or not, should read. Rabbi Schlomo Carlebach was a gift to human aspiration, a living manifestation of heavenly love. The stories of his boundless goodness, earthy personality, and prescient mind touch the miraculous and the mundane all at once. I am very disappointed that the book is out of print, as I ...             Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust Annette Insdorf Cambridge University Press, 2002 Indelible Shadows investigates questions raised by films about the Holocaust. How does one make a movie that is both morally just and marketable? Film scholar Annette Insdorf provides sensitive readings of individual films and analyzes theoretical issues such as the "truth claims" of the cinematic medium. The third edition of Indelible Shadows includes five new chapters that cover recent trends, as well as rediscoveries of motion pictures made ...             Night3 reviews Elie Wiesel Penguin Books Ltd, 1981 Elie Wiesel is atrue voice of truth and conscience Night by Elie Wiesel is not only one of the definitve works on Holocaust literature, it is one of the most definitve works on humanity. This is a factual record of Wiesel's experiences from 1941, when the author was 12 years old, dedicated to learning Talmud and thirsting to learn Kaballah, to his experiences after Jews were forced into ghettoes and then transported to the death camps. ...             The Wandering Jews6 reviews Joseph Roth, Elie Wiesel W. W. Norton & Company, 2001 The Fears of 1937 Were Realized Sooner than Roth Thought This book was a paen by a 'civilized (read westernized)' Jew on the cusp of WW2 and the holocaust. Roth travelled in most of post-WW1 Eastern Europe to learn the plight of his Jewish compatriots. In the original edition (written in 1926) he speaks of Eastern European Jews (mostly those of Galicia and the remnants of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires) being able to find freedom of ...              search for books brother, carlebach, compassion, darkness, enchanted, family, forgotten, freedom, genealogy, generation, hasidic, history, holocaust, indelible, inspiring, jewish, legends, letters, masters, memoirs, message, messengers, portrait, portraits, reflections, shadows, stories, tibetan, trilogy, wandering books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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