New Releases by Elie Wiesel

A provocative and moving dialogue between two men of faith, two voices of conscience, about the most profound events and issues of our time, based upon, but expanded from, a WNBC-TV broadcast. A book that all who cherish the essential goodness in man will want to read and reread and give to friends and loved ones.

Elhanan Rosenbaum raconte ses souvenirs de la Palestine et de l''Israël "quarante-cinq ans plus tard, à New York où il s''est installé avec Malkiel, son fils."

Twenty years after he and his family were deported from Sighet to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel returned to his town in search of the watch—a bar mitzvah gift—he had buried in his backyard before they left.

Volume 1 of an anthology of works - lectures, reviews, interviews, dialogues, forewords, essays, etc.

"For centuries, Jews have remembered the Golem, a creature of clay said to have been given life by the mystical incantations of the mysterious Maharal, Rabbi Yehuda Loew, leader of the Jewish community of 16th-century Prague. Some versions have the Golem as a lovable, clumsy mute; others as a monster like Frankenstein''s who turned against his creator, giving a vivid warning against magic and the occult. In this beautiful book, Elie Wiesel has collected many of the legends associated with this enigmatic and elusive figure and retold them as seen through the eyes of a wizened gravedigger who claims to have witnessed as a child the numerous miracles that legend attributes to the Golem. ''I, Reuven, son of Yaakov,'' he begins, ''declare under oath that "Yossel the mute," the "Golem made of clay," deserves to be remembered by our people, our persecuted and assassinated, and yet immortal people. We owe it to him to evoke his fate with love and gratitude .... He was a savior, I tell you.'' Reuven''s Golem is no fool or monster, but a figure of intuition, intelligence, and compassion who may yet return, perhaps in our own generation, to protect the Jews from their enemies. Mark Podwal''s highly imaginative drawings recapture the mystery of Gothic Prague, and the elusive Golem is given a shape as the shadow of the Maharal. Thus, two remarkable artists have come together in the creation of a work of rare spiritual beauty which is also a triumph of the bookmaker''s art."--Dust jacket.

The author reconstructs the tales about the Hasidic masters to reveal the dramatic struggles of these charismatic figures who opposed strict Judaism.

This "Passover oratorio" by the composer of Runaways is a disarmingly simple account of the birth and life of Moses and of the Exodus done with masks and a clever use of puppetry. This unusual show was originally produced (and later revived) during Passover at Joseph Papp''s New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theatre.

A collection of essays on various aspects of bearing witness. Discusses, inter alia, motives for writing as a survivor; a visit in 1977 to Auschwitz, where Wiesel was interned in 1944; Babii Yar and its memory; and Soviet Yiddish poet Peretz Markish, who was executed by Stalin in 1952.

A powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, letters, and diary entries that weave together all the periods of the author''s life from his childhood in Transylvania to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Paris, and New York. • "One of the great writers of our generation addresses himself to the question of what it means to be a Jew." —The New Republic Elie Wiesel, acclaimed as one of the most gifted and sensitive writers of our time, probes, from the particular point of view of his Jewishness, such central moral and political issues as Zionism and the Middle East conflict, Solzhenitsyn and Soviet anti-Semitism, the obligations of American Jews toward Israel, the Holocaust and its cheapening in the media. "Rich in autobiographical, philosophical, moral and historical implications." —Chicago Tribune

In an attempt to avert a suicide, Azriel tells the saga of Kolvillag where all Jews (but one) are killed in pogroms.