Elie Wiesel's literary work prompted one reviewer ... he gave himself fervently and almost completely to the Hasidic way of life. From early till late each day, ten or eleven months out of the ...

Elie Wiesel is one of the most important people to have lived in the twentieth century. And yet, the fact that he lived at all beyond his teenage years was purely a matter of luck. He, like ...

Was a human rights advocate, speaking out about Bosnian ethnic cleansing, Cambodian refugees, and South African apartheid. Wiesel’s mother and youngest sister died at Auschwitz. His two older ...

Rereading Night, Elie Wiesel’s acclaimed account of his Holocaust ... but in the context of a stated desire for a procedure trumping his life. There’s a poison in the cultural air we breathe ...

Most people know Elie Wiesel as the author of “Night,” one of the first published autobiographical accounts of what life was like inside ... on the lives of the early Hasidic masters from ...