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From the Kingdom of Memory

Reminiscences

Reminiscences

By Elie Wiesel

By Elie Wiesel

By Elie Wiesel

By Elie Wiesel

Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs

Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs

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Paperback $15.00

Jan 31, 1995 | 258 Pages

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Sep 14, 2011 | 256 Pages

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    About From the Kingdom of Memory

    In this “powerful” (New York Times Book review) collection of personal essays and landmark speeches by “one of the great writers of our generation” (New Republic), 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 leading advocate of humanity and have earned him the Nobel Peace Prize.

    Here, too, as a tribute to the dead and an exhortation to the living are landmark speeches, among them his powerful testimony at the Klaus Barbie trial, his impassioned plea to President Reagan not to visit a German S.S. cemetery, and the speech he gave in Oslo in acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, in which he voices his hope that “the memory of evil will serve as a shield against evil.”

    About From the Kingdom of Memory

    In this “powerful” (New York Times Book review) collection of personal essays and landmark speeches by “one of the great writers of our generation” (New Republic), 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 leading advocate of humanity and have earned him the Nobel Peace Prize.

    Here, too, as a tribute to the dead and an exhortation to the living are landmark speeches, among them his powerful testimony at the Klaus Barbie trial, his impassioned plea to President Reagan not to visit a German S.S. cemetery, and the speech he gave in Oslo in acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, in which he voices his hope that “the memory of evil will serve as a shield against evil.”

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    Also by Elie Wiesel

    Open Heart
    Hostage
    The Jews of Silence
    The Sonderberg Case
    Rashi
    See all books by Elie Wiesel

    About Elie Wiesel

    ELIE WIESEL was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The author of more than fifty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, he was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University for forty years…. More about Elie Wiesel

    About Elie Wiesel

    ELIE WIESEL was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The author of more than fifty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, he was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University for forty years…. More about Elie Wiesel

    Product Details

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Schocken
    Jan 31, 1995 | 258 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9780805210200

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Schocken
    Sep 14, 2011 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9780307806437

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    Praise

    “Wiesel is our rememberer: He is the bearer of witness.”
    —Frederick Busch, The New York Times Book Review

    Table Of Contents

    Preface • 9
    Why I Write • 13
    To Believe or Not to Believe • 23
    Inside a Library • 37
    The Stranger in the Bible • 49
    A Celebration of Friendship • 75
    Peretz Markish • 87
    Dialogues • 95
    Pilgrimage to the Kingdom of Night • 105
    Sighet Again • 123
    Kaddish in Cambodia • 131
    Making the Ghosts Speak • 135
    Passover • 147
    Meeting Again • 155
    Trivializing Memory • 165
    Bitburg • 173
    Testimony at the Barbie Trial • 179
    When Memory Brings People Together • 191
    More Dialogues • 203
    What Really Makes Us Free? • 219
    Are We Afraid of Peace? • 225
    The Nobel Address • 231
    The Nobel Lecture • 237

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