{"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 As an orphaned survivor and witness to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) became a torchbearer for victims and survivors of the Holocaust at a time when the world preferred to forget. How did this frail, soft-spoken man from a small village in the Carpathians become such an influential presence on the world stage? Using Wiesel's writings and interviews with his family, close friends, scholars, and critics, Joseph Berger presents Wiesel as both revered Nobel laureate and man of complex psychological texture and contradictions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Berger explores Wiesel's Hasidic childhood in Sighet, his postwar years as a teenage orphan in France, his transformation into a Parisian intellectual, his fumbling attempts at romance, his hungry years scraping together a living in America as a working journalist, his emergence as a spokesperson for Holocaust survivors, and his difficult final years. Through this fully realized portrait, we see how this teenage survivor from a Hasidic family became the eloquent embodiment of Holocaust remembrance and of forceful opposition to indifference.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300228984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360","brand":"Joseph Berger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42561869086901,"sku":"9780300228984","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_357449b3-5e9a-4f50-9670-65c2350f2d30.jpg?v=1670942150","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/elie-wiesel-confronting-the-silence-9780300228984","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}