Elie Wiesel
From the Kingdom of Memory
Reminiscences
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In this powerful (New York Times Book review) collection of personal essays and landmark speeches by one of the great writers of our generation (New Republic), Elie Wiesel weaves together reminiscences of his life before the Holocaust, his struggle to find meaning afterward, and the actions he has taken on behalf of others that have defined him as a leading advocate of humanity and have earned him the Nobel Peace Prize.Here, too, as a tribute to the dead and an exhortation to the living are landmark speeches, among them his powerful testimony at the Klaus Barbie trial, his impassioned plea to President Reagan not to visit a German S.S. cemete…
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In this powerful (New York Times Book review) collection of personal essays and landmark speeches by one of the great writers of our generation (New Republic), Elie Wiesel weaves together reminiscences of his life before the Holocaust, his struggle to find meaning afterward, and the actions he has taken on behalf of others that have defined him as a leading advocate of humanity and have earned him the Nobel Peace Prize.Here, too, as a tribute to the dead and an exhortation to the living are landmark speeches, among them his powerful testimony at the Klaus Barbie trial, his impassioned plea to President Reagan not to visit a German S.S. cemetery, and the speech he gave in Oslo in acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, in which he voices his hope that the memory of evil will serve as a shield against evil.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8052-1020-0
- EAN: 9780805210200
- Produktnummer: 23131685
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Über den Autor
ELIE WIESEL was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The author of more than fifty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, he was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University for forty years. Wiesel died in 2016.
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