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Elie Wiesel

Born

in Sighet, Kingdom of Romania

September 30, 1928

Died

July 02, 2016

Website

Genre

Memoir, Fiction

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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
In his political activities Wiesel became a regular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust and remained a strong defender of human rights during his lifetime. He also advocated for many other causes like the state of Israel and against Hamas and victims of oppression including Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, the apartheid in South Africa, the Bosnian genocide, Sudan, the Kurds and the Armenian genocide, Argentina's Desaparecidos or Nicara ...more

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Elie Wiesel’s books

Average rating: 4.36 · 1,400,535 ratings · 47,405 reviews · 337 distinct works ‧ Similar authors

	Night by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator), François Mauriac (Foreword) 4.38 avg rating — 1,329,630 ratings — published 1956 — 302 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dawn by Elie Wiesel, Frances Frenaye (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 22,451 ratings — published 1960 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Day by Elie Wiesel, Anne Borchardt (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 13,663 ratings — published 1961	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident by Elie Wiesel, François Mauriac (Foreword), Stella Rodway (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 5,327 ratings — published 1961 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Open Heart by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 2,648 ratings — published 2012 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trial of God: (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod) by Elie Wiesel, Robert McAfee Brown (Introduction), Matthew Fox (Afterword) 4.14 avg rating — 1,502 ratings — published 1979 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Rivers Run to the Sea 4.11 avg rating — 1,301 ratings — published 1994 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twilight by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 1,109 ratings — published 1987 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hostage by Elie Wiesel, Catherine Temerson (Translator) 3.49 avg rating — 1,090 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Mad Desire to Dance 3.28 avg rating — 970 ratings — published 2006 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Elie Wiesel

The Night Trilogy (3 books)
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Elie Wiesel,

Anne Borchardt (Translator)

4.36 avg rating — 1,371,021 ratings

The Memoirs (2 books)
by

Elie Wiesel,

Marion Wiesel (Translator)

4.13 avg rating — 1,536 ratings

Quotes by Elie Wiesel (?)

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

41887 likes

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy

5147 likes

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: deep, friendship, life, love, obsession, sharing

3091 likes

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Polls

May 2017 Short Story Poll

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 64 pages, 1922

71 votes, 22.9%

Night by Elie Wiesel, 120 pages, 1958

44 votes, 14.2%

A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor, 24 pages, 1955

36 votes, 11.6%

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, 40 pages, 1923

22 votes, 7.1%

First Love by Ivan Turgenev, 124 pages, 1856

18 votes, 5.8%

Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen, 54 pages, 1958

16 votes, 5.2%

How Much Land Does a Man Need by Leo Tolstoy, 66 pages, 1886

16 votes, 5.2%

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, 112 pages, 1970

14 votes, 4.5%

The Garden Party and Other Stories Title Story by Katherine Mansfield, very few pages, 1922

13 votes, 4.2%

Passing by Nella Larsen, 122 pages, 1929

12 votes, 3.9%

R.U.R. by Karel Čapek, 58 pages, 1920

12 votes, 3.9%

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, 138 pages, 1937

11 votes, 3.5%

Green Tea by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, 88 pages, 1872

10 votes, 3.2%

The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick, 69 pages, 1989

8 votes, 2.6%

Sultana's Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, 64 pages, 1905

7 votes, 2.3%

310 total votes

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