{"product_id":"elie-wiesel-confronting-the-silence-9780300228984","title":"Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir \u003ci\u003eNight\u003c\/i\u003e and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Biography category\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An indispensable touchstone.\"--Julia M. Klein, \u003ci\u003eForward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust with his searing memoir \u003ci\u003eNight\u003c\/i\u003e. How did this soft-spoken man from a small Carpathian town become such an influential figure on the world stage? Drawing on Wiesel's prodigious literary output and interviews with his family, friends, scholars, and critics, Joseph Berger seeks to answer this question. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Berger explores Wiesel's Hasidic childhood in Sighet, his postwar years spent rebuilding his life from the ashes in France, his transformation into a Parisian intellectual, his failed attempts at romance, his years scraping together a living in America as a journalist, his decision to marry and have a child, his emergence as a spokesperson for Holocaust survivors and persecuted peoples throughout the world, his lifelong devotion to the state of Israel, and his difficult final years. Through this penetrating portrait we come to know intimately the man the Norwegian Nobel Committee called \"a messenger to mankind.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Berger\u003c\/b\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e reporter, columnist, and editor for thirty years, and he continues to contribute periodically. He has taught urban affairs at the City University of New York's Macaulay Honors College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDisplaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e and lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50619480211730,"sku":"9780300228984","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_20381942-5fca-426f-b99f-9959a502058d.jpg?v=1744221485","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/elie-wiesel-confronting-the-silence-9780300228984","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}