A Jew Today

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On sale Aug 12, 1979 | 272 Pages | 978-0-394-74057-7
In these essays, open letters, and diary entries, Wiesel addresses the question of what it means to be a Jew today--in America, in Europe, and in Israel.  From his childhood in Transylvania to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Paris, and New York, Wiesel probes such central moral and political issues as Zionism and the Middle East conflict, the obligations of American Jews toward Israel, the Holocaust and its cheapening in the media.
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. View titles by Elie Wiesel

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In these essays, open letters, and diary entries, Wiesel addresses the question of what it means to be a Jew today--in America, in Europe, and in Israel.  From his childhood in Transylvania to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Paris, and New York, Wiesel probes such central moral and political issues as Zionism and the Middle East conflict, the obligations of American Jews toward Israel, the Holocaust and its cheapening in the media.

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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. View titles by Elie Wiesel