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Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel is the author of more than forty books, including his unforgettable international best sellers Night and A Beggar in Jerusalem, winner of the Prix Médicis. He has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States Congressional Gold Medal, and the French Legion of Honor with the rank of Grand Cross. In 1986, he received the Nobel Peace Prize. He is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University.

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After the Darkness
Reflections on the Holocaust
Written by Elie Wiesel


Format: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 22, 2002
Price: $20.00

A poignant, powerful distillation of the Holocaust experience from the internationally acclaimed writer and Nobel laureate.

Though Elie Wiesel's his first book, Night, describes his concentration camp experience and has been read by millions, Weisel has rarely written directly about the Holocaust in his books. Now, as the last generation of survivors... Read more >

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All Rivers Run to the Sea
Memoirs
Written by Elie Wiesel


Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 22, 1996
Price: $16.00

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Also available as an abridged audiobook download.

All Rivers Run to the Sea
Memoirs
Written by Elie Wiesel
Read by Elie Wiesel


Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: January 24, 2006
Price: $9.95

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Also available as a trade paperback.

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And the Sea Is Never Full
Memoirs, 1969-
Written by Elie Wiesel


Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: November 7, 2000
Price: $15.95

As this concluding volume of his moving and revealing memoirs begins, Elie Wiesel is forty years old, a writer of international repute. Determined to speak out more actively for both Holocaust survivors and the disenfranchised everywhere, he sets himself a challenge: "I will become militant. I will teach, share, bear witness... Read more >

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A Beggar in Jerusalem
A novel
Written by Elie Wiesel


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: May 27, 1997
Price: $15.00

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... Read more >

Conversations with Elie Wiesel

Written by Elie Wiesel and Richard D. Heffner


Format: eBook
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $12.00

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Also available as a trade paperback.

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Conversations with Elie Wiesel

Written by Elie Wiesel and Richard D. Heffner


Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $12.00

Conversations with Elie Wiesel is a far-ranging dialogue with the Nobel Peace Prize-winner on the major issues of our time and on life’s timeless questions.

In open and lively responses to the probing questions and provocative comments of Richard D. Heffner—American historian, noted public television moderator/producer, and Rutgers University professor—Elie Wiesel covers... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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The Fifth Son
A novel
Written by Elie Wiesel


Format: Trade Paperback, 228 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 7, 1998
Price: $15.00

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The Forgotten

Written by Elie Wiesel


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: January 31, 1995
Price: $15.00

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 heroism as well as the shame--before it is too late. Elhanan's story compels his son to go to the Romanian... Read more >

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From the Kingdom of Memory
Reminiscences
Written by Elie Wiesel


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: January 31, 1995
Price: $15.00

In this powerful collection of personal essays and speeches by one of the great writers of our generation, 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... Read more >

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The Gates of the Forest
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel


Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: May 16, 1995
Price: $14.00

Gregor--a teenage 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... Read more >

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Jew Today

Written by Elie Wiesel


Format: Trade Paperback, 260 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 1979
Price: $15.00

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... Read more >

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The Judges
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $13.95

From Elie Wiesel, a gripping novel of guilt, innocence, and the perilousness of judging both.

A plane en route from New York to Tel Aviv is forced down by bad weather. A nearby house provides refuge for five of its passengers: Claudia, who has left her husband and found new love; Razziel... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

The Judges
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel


Format: eBook, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95

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Also available as a trade paperback.

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Legends of Our Time

Written by Elie Wiesel


Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 6, 2004
Price: $12.95

As a child in Sighet, as a young boy in Auschwitz, as a teenaged DP wandering through post-World War II Europe, as a young man at the beginning of his career as writer, witness, and human-rights activist, Elie Wiesel has had extraordinary encounters: with his beloved sages, mystics, teachers, and dreamers... Read more >

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A Mad Desire to Dance

Written by Elie Wiesel
Read by Mark Bramhall and Kirsten Potter
Translated by Catherine Temerson


Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: February 17, 2009
Price: $34.95

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A Mad Desire to Dance

Written by Elie Wiesel
Read by Mark Bramhall and Kirsten Potter


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: February 17, 2009
Price: $20.00

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Also available as an unabridged audio CD, eBook, hardcover and a trade paperback.


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April 13, 2010
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A Mad Desire to Dance
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Price: $15.00

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A Mad Desire to Dance

Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson


Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 17, 2009
Price: $25.00

From Elie Wiesel, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and one of our fiercest moral voices, a provocative and deeply thoughtful new novel about a life shaped by the worst horrors of the twentieth century and one man’s attempt to reclaim happiness.

Doriel, a European expatriate living in New York, suffers... Read more >

A Mad Desire to Dance

Written by Elie Wiesel


Format: eBook, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 17, 2009
Price: $25.00

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The Oath
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel


Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: May 12, 1986
Price: $16.00

When a Christian boy disappears in a fictional Eastern European town in the 1920s, the local Jews are quickly accused of ritual murder. There is tension in the air and a pogrom threatens to erupt. Suddenly, an extraordinary man—Moshe the dreamer, a madman and mystic—steps forward and confesses to a crime... Read more >

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Rashi

Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson


Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $22.00

From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages.

Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Rashi

Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson


Format: eBook, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $22.00

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Also available as a hardcover.

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Somewhere a Master
Hasidic Portraits and Legends
Written by Elie Wiesel


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: June 28, 2005
Price: $13.95

The compassion of Reb Moshe-Leib, the vision of the Seer of Lublin, the wisdom of Reb Pinhas, the warmth of the Ba’al Shem Tov, the humor of Reb Naphtali—to their followers these sages appeared as kings, judges, and prophets. They communicated joy and wonder and fervor to the men and women... Read more >


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August 24, 2010
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The Sonderberg Case

Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson


Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $25.00

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