Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust. The Nazis took the lives of most of his family, destroyed the community in which he was raised, and subjected him to ghettoization, imprisonment in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and a death march. It is remarkable not only that Wiesel survived and found a way to write about his experiences, but that he did so with elegance and profundity. His novels grapple with questions of tradition, ...
Table of Content
Foreword
Peppy Margolis
Introduction
Victoria Nesfield and
Philip Smith
Part I. Hasidic Origins
1. Between Fiction and Reality: Elie Wiesel’s Memoirs...
About the author
Victoria Nesfield is Research Coordinator in the Humanities Research Centre at the University of York, in the United Kingdom.
Philip Smith is Professor of English...
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