New Releases by Elie Wiesel

Grisha Kossover, arriving in Russia in 1972, twenty years after his father, poet Paltiel Kossover, was executed by Stalin, is finally able to read the written testament his parent left behind and finds that it illuminates the shadowed places of his own life.

Elie Wiesel is a consummate storyteller, commentator on classic Jewish texts, human rights activist, university professor, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Celebrating Elie Wiesel presents stories, essays, and reflections that celebrate his extraordinary literary, moral, religious, and human rights contributions.

When the Six-Day War began, Elie Wiesel rushed to Israel. "I went to Jerusalem because I had to go somewhere, I had to leave the present and bring it back to the past. You see, the man who came to Jerusalem then came as a beggar, a madman, not believing his eyes and ears, and above all, his memory." This haunting novel takes place in the days following the Six-Day War. A Holocaust survivor visits the newly reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Western Wall he encounters the beggars and madmen who congregate there every evening, and who force him to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties to the present. Weaving together myth and mystery, parable and paradox, Wiesel bids the reader to join him on a spiritual journey back and forth in time, always returning to Jerusalem.

A lecture held at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, June 1996. Discusses the importance of memory to human life. Unlike history, it has an ethical aspect; and it must be inclusive - of good and evil, the painful and the encouraging, Nazi crimes and those few who heroically resisted them. Points to the ghetto and concentration camp inmates who wrote journals, and to Dubnow who continued to write his history, so that we might remember. We should remember the Jews in the photographs - the old Jew whose beard is being cut off by laughing German soldiers, the starving children begging for bread. But as the generation of the Holocaust passes away, who will remember or want to remember? While Germany is now a praiseworthy democracy, there are troubling manifestations of insensitivity toward the Jewish past. Pp. 1-10 contain introductory remarks by Wolf Lepenies on the occasion of the lecture.

Atemlos, bewusst karg im Stil erzählt der Friedensnobelpreisträger seine Erfahrung als Kind in Auschwitz. Jede Zeile spricht uns unmittelbar an.

Near the end of his second term as president of France, Francois Mitterrand decided to talk openly about his life, both personal and political. President for fourteen years, longer than anyone else in the history of the French Republic, Mitterrand was interested not in constructing an elaborate memorial to himself in words but in leaving behind a living testament. He therefore turned to someone whom he knew and trusted, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, a close friend of many years, to join him in a vibrant, vigorous exchange. The topics they discuss in these pages are childhood, faith, war, power, writing, and those moments - however and whenever they arrive - that shape and sometimes define us as people. Mitterrand and Wiesel''s dialogue is spontaneous, thoughtful, lyrical, blunt, far-reaching, and candid, whether it involves controversial moments in Mitterrand''s political career, Wiesel''s memories of Auschwitz, the importance of family and religion in their lives, or simply their favorite books and walks. Here is an unobstructed view into the lives and times of two of the greatest figures of conscience of our century, an inspiring memoir in two voices.

Gregor—a teenaged boy, the lone survivor of his family—is hiding from the Germans in the forest. He hides in a cave, where he meets a mysterious stranger who saves his life. He hides in the village, posing as a deaf-mute peasant boy. He hides among the partisans of the Jewish resistance. But where, he asks, is God hiding? And where can one find redemption in a world that God has abandoned? In a story punctuated by friendship and fear, sacrifice and betrayal, Gregor''s wartime wanderings take us deep into the ghost-filled inner world of the survivor.

Distinguished psychotherapist and survivor Elhanan Rosenbaum is losing his memory to an incurable disease. Never having spoken of the war years before, he resolves to tell his son about his past—the heroic parts as well as the parts that fill him with shame—before it is too late. Elhanan''s story compels his son to go to the Romanian village where the crime that continues to haunt his father was committed. There he encounters the improbable wisdom of a gravedigger who leads him to the grave of his grandfather and to the truths that bind one generation to another.

Ce que j''affirme, c''est que ce témoignage, qui vient après tant d''autres et qui décrit une abomination dont nous pourrions croire que plus rien ne nous demeure inconnu, est cependant différent, singulier, unique... L''enfant qui nous raconte ici son histoire était un élu de Dieu. Il ne vivait, depuis l''éveil de sa conscience, que pour Dieu, nourri du Talmud, ambitieux d''être initié à la Kabbale, voué à l''Eternel. Avions-nous jamais pensé à cette conséquence d''une horreur moins visible, moins frappante que d''autres abominations, - la pire de toutes, pourtant, pour nous qui possédons la foi : la mort de Dieu dans cette âme d''enfant qui découvre d''un seul coup le mal absolu ? François Mauriac

Mémoires du lauréat du prix Nobel de la paix (en 1986) et du prix Médicis (en 1968), Juif originaine des Carpates roumaines, rescapé des camps de concentration nazis, journaliste et auteur de nombreux livres qui ont pour thèmes principaux: l''holocauste, la souffrance des Juifs russes, etc.

Determines whether there has been an increase in time to completion of doctoral degrees awarded by the Univ. of California, and nationally. Also studies factors that appear to contribute to attrition and lengthen the time to get the degree. Graphs.

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of more than 30 books, including the bestselling Souls on Fire and, most recently, The Forgotten, offers a collection of 25 portraits of men and women of the Bible, the Talmud, and the Hasidic tradition. Sages and Dreamers is a moving and revealing reminder of our common history, beliefs, and aspirations. Glossary.

Elie Wiesel, Lucy Dawidowicz, Dorothy Rabinowitz, and Robert McAfee Brown explore society''s inability to comprehend the horrors of the Holocaust, and its unwillingness to remember. Annotated by Elliot Lefkovitz, educational consultant for the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois, this edition contains extensive documentation of ideas and facts that have surfaced since the book''s first appearance in 1977.

Moderated by Gabe Pressman, Wiesel and Cardinal O''Connor discuss several issues, including the religious meaning of the Holocaust; the Vatican''s position during the Holocaust; the moral aspect of the phenomenon of Holocaust denial; antisemitism and Jewish-Catholic relations; anti-Zionism; Arab-Israeli relations; and whether it was proper for the Pope to meet with Arafat and Waldheim.

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."

Features the author''s personal Holocaust memoir--Night, and two novels--Dawn and Day (originally published in English as The Accident).

"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.

Winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize.

L''auteur retrace l''histoire de l''Europe au cours des années 1925-1975 environ, à travers les tribulations et épreuves d''un Juif russe partagé entre le communisme et sa fidélité au judaïsme.

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