Elie Wiesel Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Publication Order of The Night Trilogy Books
Dawn | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Day | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Town Beyond the Wall | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gates of the Forest | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Beggar in Jerusalem | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Oath | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Testament | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Golem | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fifth Son | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twilight | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Forgotten | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Judges | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Time of the Uprooted | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Mad Desire to Dance | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sonderberg Case | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hostage | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Plays
Zalman Madness God | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Trial of God | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Collections
An Ethical Compass | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tale of a Niggun | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Filled with Fire and Light | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Memoirs Books
All Rivers Run to the Sea | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
And the Sea is Never Full | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Souls on Fire | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jews of Silence | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Legends of Our Time | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One Generation After | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Messengers of God | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Jew Today | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Four Hasidic Masters | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Five Biblical Portraits | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Somewhere A Master | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Against Silence | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Evil and Exile | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Six Days of Destruction | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Kingdom of Memory | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Journey of Faith | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sages and Dreamers | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conversations with Elie Wiesel | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Dialog and Dilemma With Elie Wiesel | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Passover Haggadah | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Memoir in Two Voices | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wise Men and Their Tales | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
After the Darkness | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rashi | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Open Heart | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Jewish Encounters Books
The Wicked Son | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rashi | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Jewish Body | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hillel: If Not Now, When? | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Yehuda Halevi | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Burnt Books | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ben-Gurion | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sacred Trash | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
When General Grant Expelled the Jews | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Job | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Menachem Begin | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Abraham | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Writers on Writing | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Am Jewish | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lost Lives, Lost Art | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Elie Wiesel is an American political activist, professor, writer, and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
The author was born in Sighet, Romania in 1928, a small Jewish community that had settled in the area since the mid-17th century. They had settled there seeking refuge from the persecution and pogroms against Jews in Ukraine.
His maternal grandmother who was a Hasidic Jew had a deep impact on the young man and encouraged him to undertake Talmudic studies.
While his father Shlomo was an emancipated Jew that was more open to happenings in the world, he also insisted that Wiesel study modern Hebrew.
He wanted him to learn Hebrew so that he could study the works of modern Hebrew authors. At home, he lived with a multilingual family that spoke Yiddish, Romanian, Hungarian and German.
The family’s life changed drastically in the mid-1940s when Hitler ordered that all Jews in Eastern Europe be transferred to death camps in Poland.
His entire family was ultimately transferred to Poland and only Wiesel and two elder siblings would survive the ordeal.
Following the end of World War II and liberation from Auschwitz in 1945, Elie Wiesel was part of a group of Jewish children orphaned that was sent to study in France. In France, he had a choice of either taking religious or secular studies.
Given his experiences at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, his faith had been severely deprecated. He believed that God had stood by and not been faithful to the Jews in their time of need.
Nonetheless, he still decided to undertake religious studies. After several years of studying at preparatory schools, he was sent to study at the Sorbonne in Paris.
He would then start working as a teacher of Hebrew and translator to supplement his earnings as a journalist. It was during this time that Francois Mauriac the French Catholic writer managed to persuade Wiesel to document his experiences.
What resulted was the internationally acclaimed memoir “Night,” which went on to become a bestseller, selling millions of copies and being translated into more than 30 languages.
He used the income from the sales of the book to support a Yeshiva he set up in Israel in memory of his father.
Elie Wiesel now dedicates his life to ensuring that the Holocaust will not be forgotten. Many of the works including plays, collections of essays, and novels explore genocide and the Holocaust.
He has become a speaker, writer, and spokesman on these issues and has spoken all over the world speaking in Kosovo, the former Soviet Union, Bosnia, and Rwanda.
He founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity and for his efforts he was granted the Nobel Peace Prize award.
After many years of being stateless, he was granted an American passport in 1956. Years later, he was also offered French citizenship when Francois Mitterand his close friend became President of France.
Between 1972 and 1976 he worked as a professor at the City University of New York where he taught Judaic Studies. He was also Yale University’s Humanities and Social Thought Henry Luce Visiting Scholar.
In addition to the Nobel Peace Prize, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor Grand Croix, the Congressional Gold Medal of the United States, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Night by Elie Wiesel is a deeply moving and powerful story of the personal experiences of Ellie Wiesel as a Hungarian Jew.
He together with his entire family was transferred to the concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, where most of them perished.
Elie writes in a casual and calm way as he tells of how nightmarish events unfolded. For instance, he was separated from his siblings and his mother and never saw them again.
It is a traumatic and life-altering action done in a bureaucratic and off-handed manner that is truly heartbreaking. This is only the beginning as the author goes on to tell of how he tried as hard as he could to prevent separation from his father.
Elie also had to endure and witness all manner of horrors at the concentration camps. On the terrifying journey, he tells of his growing disgust for God and humanity, which resulted in the loss of faith in humanity and God.
The work is written in an unsentimental and simple style, which just makes the horrors even more shocking.
Elie Wiesel’s novel “Dawn,” tells the story of Elish a young Jewish man that was charged with killing John Dawson, an English soldier. Elisha is a member of the resistance to the British occupation of Palestine.
The British recently captured David Ben Moshe a resistance member and the Jews could not be more livid. They resolved that for every young Jew killed, they would take out an English soldier.
Following the arrest and sentencing of David, the resistance kidnapped Dawson vowing to kill him. Gad is a leader in the movement that had tracked down Elisha, who was living as a refugee after surviving the concentration camps.
He chooses Elisha to perform the killing of Dawson which is to happen on the morning the British intend to kill David. What follows is Elisha’s emotional and psychological journey on the evening and night before the scheduled killings.
It is a brilliant work that tells of the circularity of life. The Jews and the English who had fought on the same side during World War II now find themselves on opposing sides.
Liberated, the Jews are now looking to reclaim their homeland which the English are reluctant to let go of.
“Day,” by Elie Wiesel is a novel inspired by the events in the life of the author who survived the Holocaust but is now dealing with survivor’s guilt.
The lead in the work only has superficial engagement with the living having lost most of his family through unimaginable horrors. Nonetheless, life goes on until he is hit by a cab and left in critical condition with most of his bones broken.
He welcomes death but it rejects him and in this work, we explore his reflections leading up to the accident.
He believed his life was over when he was sent to the concentration camps where he lost everyone. He had no hope of finding any hope or joy following his experiences.
He wallowed in his tragic past and this resulted in a disconnect between his past and present and made it almost impossible for him to have relationships with other people.
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