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Elie Wiesel is a consummate storyteller, commentator on classic Jewish texts, human rights activist, university professor, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Celebrating Elie Wiesel presents stories, essays, and reflections that celebrate his extraordinary literary, moral, religious, and human rights contributions.
Celebrating Elie Wiesel: Stories, Essays, Reflections FROM THE PUBLISHER
Elie Wiesel is a consummate storyteller, commentator on classic Jewish texts, human rights activist, university professor, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Celebrating Elie Wiesel presents stories, essays, and reflections that celebrate his extraordinary literary, moral, religious, and human rights contributions.
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Presents 22 stories, essays, and reflections that celebrate Wiesel's literary, moral, religious, and human rights contributions. The contributors talk about the Nobel Peace Prize winner's novels, discuss his role as a Holocaust survivor, celebrate his struggles against injustice, even compare his work to that of Sophocles. The contributors include Alan Rosen, Alan M. Dershowitz, Ariel Dorfman, John K. Roth, Pnina Lahav, Vaclav Havel, and Cynthia Ozick. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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