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Books by Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was a Romanian-born Jewish writer, professor, and political activist who survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald. After the war he worked as a journalist in France before publishing his testimony in Yiddish as Un di velt hot geshvign (And the World Remained Silent) in 1956. The condensed French version, La Nuit, appeared in 1958. Wiesel taught at Boston University for decades, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, and wrote more than fifty books on Jewish history, theology, and ethics. He is widely considered the most important literary witness to the Holocaust.