Elie Wiesel
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Culture ‘Lighting Hanukkah Candles in Death’s Kingdom:’ A story by Elie Wiesel
Editor’s note: This story by Elie Wiesel was first published in the Forward in Yiddish on December 12, 1969. This Hanukkah, we decided it was time to give the original Yiddish new life. This new translation, including aspects of the story not included in previous English translations, is by Myra Mniewski and Chana Pollack, the…
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Life What Elie Wiesel Wrote When He Went To Moscow For Simchat Torah in 1965
Elie Wiesel traveled to Russia as a reporter for the Forverts in 1965, choosing to spend the Simchat Torah holiday in Moscow, dancing with the young Russian Jews who were fearless enough to publicly celebrate a Jewish holiday under the watchful eye of the KGB. As he wrote in the pages of the Forverts: “Jewish…
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Opinion REVEALED AFTER 50 YEARS: What Elie Wiesel Wrote About The Six Day War
To mark our 120th anniversary, the Forward hunted through its archives for journalistic treasures. Here we present excerpts of a column by a former Forverts staff writer, the late Elie Wiesel, published Monday, June 12, 1967 — a heady time following Israel’s shocking Six Day War victory. Future generations will probably never believe it. Teachers…
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Culture Elie Wiesel Recalls The Friends He Used To Have
Editor’s note: “My Friends” (“Mayne khaveyrim”) by Elie Wiesel was published in the Forverts on February 21, 1966. At that time Wiesel was a staff correspondent for the newspaper, contributing news articles, book reviews and political commentary, as well as memoiristic pieces and personal essays. In “My Friends” he recalled his youth growing up in…
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News From Cambodia to Sudan: Breaking Down Wall of Apathy
The international community had just learned the cruel truth about the large-scale massacres of innocent people by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The press had done its job: No one could say we didn’t know about it. I was invited by the International Rescue Committee as part of a delegation to go on site. We…
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Opinion I Remember
At a certain point in time and by all accounts, Hitler’s Germany already had lost the war. But that didn’t keep Germany from pursuing its program for our elimination. In the beginning, once plunged into the abyss of Auschwitz, where dying was the norm and living the miracle, I was convinced that I would never…
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