query: what books has elie wiesel written?

title: Elie Wiesel

text: where Wiesel was born. Wiesel had received more than 90 honorary degrees from colleges worldwide. Elie Wiesel Eliezer Wiesel (, "ʾĔlîʿezer Vîzel"; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including "Night", a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Along with writing, he was a professor of the humanities at Boston University, which created the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies in his honor. He was involved with

title: Elie Wiesel

text: Elie Wiesel Eliezer Wiesel (, "ʾĔlîʿezer Vîzel"; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including "Night", a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Along with writing, he was a professor of the humanities at Boston University, which created the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies in his honor. He was involved with Jewish causes and helped establish the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D. C.

title: Day (Wiesel novel)

text: Day (Wiesel novel) Day, published in 1962, is the third book in a trilogy by Elie Wiesel—"Night", "Dawn", and "Day"—describing his experiences and thoughts during and after the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel is well-known for his memoir "Night" that later spawned the trilogy of which "Day" is the final book. Wiesel has written more than fifty books and has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Soon after earning the Nobel Prize, Wiesel and his wife Marion founded The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. Wiesel explains, "In "Night" it is the ‘I' who speaks. In the other two, it is the ‘I' who

title: The Testament (Elie Wiesel novel)

text: Prix des Bibliothécaires, Prix Interallie 1980 and was nominated for the Prix Concourt. The Testament (Elie Wiesel novel) Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné (1980), translated into English as The Testament (1981) is a novel by Elie Wiesel. "The Testament", to be followed by "The Fifth Son", and "The Forgotten" mark a thematic change in Elie Wiesel's telling of the Holocaust and its aftermath as Wiesel moves into telling the story of three children of the survivors. The novel takes the form of the memoirs of a Russian Jewish poet, Paltiel Kossova, whose idealism leads him to turn from his

title: The Testament (Elie Wiesel novel)

text: The Testament (Elie Wiesel novel) Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné (1980), translated into English as The Testament (1981) is a novel by Elie Wiesel. "The Testament", to be followed by "The Fifth Son", and "The Forgotten" mark a thematic change in Elie Wiesel's telling of the Holocaust and its aftermath as Wiesel moves into telling the story of three children of the survivors. The novel takes the form of the memoirs of a Russian Jewish poet, Paltiel Kossova, whose idealism leads him to turn from his Jewish religious heritage towards communism. The novel won the Prix Livre Inter, and

title: Elie Wiesel

text: soul of a child". Mauriac persuaded him to begin writing about his harrowing experiences. Wiesel first wrote the 900-page memoir "Un di velt hot geshvign" ("And the World Remained Silent") in Yiddish, which was published in abridged form in Buenos Aires. Wiesel rewrote a shortened version of the manuscript in French, "La Nuit", in 1955. It was translated into English as "Night" in 1960. The book sold few copies after its publication, but still attracted interest from reviewers, leading to television interviews with Wiesel and meetings with literary figures such as Saul Bellow. After its increased popularity, "Night" was eventually

title: Elie Wiesel

text: I died, he would die." After they were taken to Buchenwald, his father died before the camp was liberated. In "Night", Wiesel recalled the shame he felt when he heard his father being beaten and was unable to help. Wiesel was tattooed with inmate number "A-7713" on his left arm. The camp was liberated by the U.S. Third Army on April 11, 1945, when they were just prepared to be evacuated from Buchenwald. After World War II ended and Wiesel was freed, he joined a transport of 1,000 child survivors of Buchenwald to Ecouis, France, where the Œuvre de secours

title: Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity

text: world to share ideas on political, cultural, religious, and academic boundaries. The foundation organizes contests, awards, and conferences for youths in both the United States and other countries experiencing cultural conflicts. The foundation had approximately $15 million in investments managed by Bernard Madoff Investment Securities, which was lost when Madoff's company defrauded its investors of $50 billion in 2008. However, Wiesel would not let this setback prevent the foundation from holding to its mission. Wiesel has shared his experiences in the Holocaust in his memoir, "Night", and his name can be seen in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington

title: Dawn (Wiesel novel)

text: The next symbol is Elisha’s name, which alludes to the prophet Elisha, mentioned in the Old Testament's Book of Kings. Lastly, dawn is a symbol which represents death. Dawn is generally the time that the Jews and hostages get executed, so throughout the book, the repetition of Elisha mentioning dawn refers to the death of Jews and hostages. Dawn (Wiesel novel) Dawn is a novel by Elie Wiesel, published in 1961. It is the second in a trilogy— "Night," "Dawn", and "Day"—describing Wiesel's experiences or thoughts during and after the Holocaust. "Dawn" is an original work of fiction. It tells

title: Dawn (Wiesel novel)

text: Dawn (Wiesel novel) Dawn is a novel by Elie Wiesel, published in 1961. It is the second in a trilogy— "Night," "Dawn", and "Day"—describing Wiesel's experiences or thoughts during and after the Holocaust. "Dawn" is an original work of fiction. It tells the story of Elisha, a Holocaust survivor. After the war, Elisha moves to the British Mandate of Palestine and joins the Irgun (in the book known as the Movement), a paramilitary group determined to oust the British from the area. One night, he is told he must execute a British officer at dawn. The novel covers his internal

title: The Forgotten (Wiesel novel)

text: deal with the past. The Forgotten (Wiesel novel) The Forgotten (French: "L'oublié" "the forgotten one") is a novel by Elie Wiesel, published in 1992 in French. It follows two men, Elhanan Rosenbaum, and his son Malkiel. Elhanan is suffering from an incurable disease that causes him to lose his memory slowly, something like amnesia. Elhanan tells Malkiel the story of his past before he forgets it all. Malkiel is compelled to go to the village in Romania where his father failed to stop a crime from occurring, a memory that continues to haunt him. Malkiel encounters the truth about his

title: The Forgotten (Wiesel novel)

text: The Forgotten (Wiesel novel) The Forgotten (French: "L'oublié" "the forgotten one") is a novel by Elie Wiesel, published in 1992 in French. It follows two men, Elhanan Rosenbaum, and his son Malkiel. Elhanan is suffering from an incurable disease that causes him to lose his memory slowly, something like amnesia. Elhanan tells Malkiel the story of his past before he forgets it all. Malkiel is compelled to go to the village in Romania where his father failed to stop a crime from occurring, a memory that continues to haunt him. Malkiel encounters the truth about his father and attempts to

title: Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity

text: Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity Elie Wiesel and his wife founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation in 1986, the same year he received the Nobel Prize for Peace, using the award money from the prize to fund the organization. Wiesel has experienced inequality first hand through the Holocaust and has been working in several different areas involving the Holocaust. The Foundation’s mission statement, created in remembrance of the Holocaust, is "to combat indifference, intolerance and injustice through international dialogue and youth-focused programs that promote acceptance, understanding and equality." Wiesel has dedicated the foundation to bringing together people from all over the

title: Elie Wiesel

text: for generations." In 2007, Wiesel was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award. That same year, the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity issued a letter condemning Armenian genocide denial, a letter that was signed by 53 Nobel laureates including Wiesel. Wiesel has repeatedly called Turkey's 90-year-old campaign to downplay its actions during the Armenian genocide a double killing. In 2009, Wiesel criticized the Vatican for lifting the excommunication of controversial bishop Richard Williamson, a member of the Society of Saint Pius X. In June 2009, Wiesel accompanied US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel as they

title: Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity

text: recognized Mr. Hank’s vast amount of charity work. Most notably he has worked with the Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund, ONE Campaign, Hole in the Wall Gang—set up by fellow actor and friend Paul Newman— and the Got Your 6 Campaign, among many, many others worldwide. Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity Elie Wiesel and his wife founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation in 1986, the same year he received the Nobel Prize for Peace, using the award money from the prize to fund the organization. Wiesel has experienced inequality first hand through the Holocaust and has been working in several different areas

title: Elie Wiesel

text: to the Sea", was published in 1994 and covered his life up to the year 1969. The second, titled "And the Sea is Never Full" and published in 1999, covered the years from 1969 to 1999. Wiesel and his wife, Marion, started the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity in 1986. He served as chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust (later renamed the US Holocaust Memorial Council) from 1978 to 1986, spearheading the building of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The museum gives The Elie Wiesel Award to "internationally prominent individuals whose actions have advanced

title: Elie Wiesel

text: in Hitler's death camps", as well as his "practical work in the cause of peace", Wiesel had delivered a message "of peace, atonement, and human dignity" to humanity. He was a founding board member of the New York Human Rights Foundation and remained active throughout his life. Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet (now Sighetu Marmației), Maramureș, in the Carpathian Mountains in Romania. His parents were Sarah Feig and Shlomo Wiesel. At home, Wiesel's family spoke Yiddish most of the time, but also German, Hungarian, and Romanian. Wiesel's mother, Sarah, was the daughter of Dodye Feig, a celebrated Vizhnitz Hasid

title: Elie Wiesel

text: chancellor John Silber. The university created the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies in his honor. From 1972 to 1976 Wiesel was a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York and member of the American Federation of Teachers. In 1982 he served as the first Henry Luce Visiting Scholar in Humanities and Social Thought at Yale University. He also co-instructed Winter Term (January) courses at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida. From 1997 to 1999 he was Ingeborg Rennert Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies at Barnard College of Columbia University. In 1969 he married Marion Erster Rose, who originally

title: Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania

text: Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania The Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania, "Institutul Naţional pentru Studierea Holocaustului din România „Elie Wiesel”" in Romanian) is a public institution established by the Romanian government on August 7, 2005, and officially opened on October 9 of the same year, which is Romania's National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust. The institute is named after the Romanian-born Jewish Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel, who chaired the Wiesel Commission which reported on Romania's involvement in the Holocaust to the Romanian government in 2004, and which recommended that

text: such an institute be established. The institute is responsible for researching Romania's role in the Holocaust, and gathering, archiving and publishing documents relating to this event. The institute is currently headed by Mihail E. Ionescu and falls under the responsibility of the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs. Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania The Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania, "Institutul Naţional pentru Studierea Holocaustului din România „Elie Wiesel”" in Romanian) is a public institution established by the Romanian government on August 7, 2005, and officially opened on October 9 of

title: Elie Wiesel

text: son, Shlomo Elisha Wiesel, named after Wiesel's father. In the U.S., he went on to write over 40 books, most of them non-fiction Holocaust literature, and novels. As an author, he has been awarded a number of literary prizes and is considered among the most important in describing the Holocaust from a highly personal perspective. As a result, some historians credited Wiesel with giving the term "Holocaust" its present meaning, although he did not feel that the word adequately described that historical event. In 1975, he co-founded the magazine "Moment" with writer Leonard Fein. The 1979 book and play "The

title: Elie Wiesel

text: was from Austria and also translated many of his books. They had one son, Shlomo Elisha Wiesel, named after Wiesel's father. The family lived in Greenwich, Connecticut. Wiesel was attacked in a San Francisco hotel by 22-year-old Holocaust denier Eric Hunt in February 2007, but was not injured. Hunt was arrested the following month and charged with multiple offenses. In February 2012, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints performed a posthumous baptism for Simon Wiesenthal's parents without proper authorization. After his own name was submitted for proxy baptism, Wiesel spoke out against the unauthorized practice

title: Elisha Wiesel

text: Elisha Wiesel Elisha Wiesel (born June 6, 1972) is an American businessman and the only child of Jewish writer, activist, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. He serves as the chief information officer of Goldman Sachs. Elisha Wiesel was born June 6, 1972. His father, Elie Wiesel, was a Holocaust survivor of Hungarian and Romanian Jewish descent, and an author. His mother, Marion Erster Rose, was a Holocaust survivor of Austrian Jewish descent and translator. He was raised in Manhattan and suburban New Jersey, and attended Yale University. He has two children: a son, Elijah, and daughter, Shira. Wiesel joined the

title: Elie Wiesel

text: translated into 30 languages with ten million copies sold in the United States. At one point film director Orson Welles wanted to make it into a feature film, but Wiesel refused, feeling that his memoir would lose its meaning if it were told without the silences in between his words. Oprah Winfrey made it a spotlight selection for her book club in 2006. In 1955, Wiesel moved to New York as foreign correspondent for the Israel daily, "Yediot Ahronot". In 1969, he married Marion Erster Rose, who was from Austria, who also translated many of his books. They had one

title: Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity

text: grow over the past fifteen years. A new and expanded library was opened in 2002 to support the growing number of students. A new matriculation exam program became available to students through grade twelve in 2004. The Beitz Tzipora Center at Kiryat Malachi also provides programs for students 1st through 12th grade, offers a summer program for the students, and provides an adult education program for the surrounding community. Both Elie and Marion Wiesel are extremely involved with the centers and frequently make trips to provide encouragement to the children. Their work has not gone unnoticed. Israeli school and government

title: Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity

text: The Ashkelon center serves students in 1st through 6th grade, runs a summer program for the students, and also provides an adult education program for the surrounding community. Implemented in 2004, Ethiopian students who attend the Ashkelon center and choose to enroll at a higher institute of education are offered the opportunity to volunteer at the Beit Tzipora Ashkelon Center during the school year in exchange for a scholarship from the Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity that significantly helps with financing his or her college education. The Beitz Tzipora Center for Study and Enrichment at Kiryat Malachi has continued to

title: Elisha Wiesel

text: of Jewish Heritage on January 29, 2017, he suggested protesting against the Executive Order 13769 was part of his father's legacy. Elisha Wiesel Elisha Wiesel (born June 6, 1972) is an American businessman and the only child of Jewish writer, activist, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. He serves as the chief information officer of Goldman Sachs. Elisha Wiesel was born June 6, 1972. His father, Elie Wiesel, was a Holocaust survivor of Hungarian and Romanian Jewish descent, and an author. His mother, Marion Erster Rose, was a Holocaust survivor of Austrian Jewish descent and translator. He was raised in Manhattan

title: Elie Wiesel

text: Trial of God" are said to have been based on his real-life Auschwitz experience of witnessing three Jews who, close to death, conduct a trial against God, under the accusation that He has been oppressive of the Jewish people. Regarding his personal beliefs, Wiesel called himself an agnostic. Wiesel also played a role in the initial success of "The Painted Bird" by Jerzy Kosinski by endorsing it before revelations that the book was fiction and, in the sense that it was presented as all Kosinski's true experience, a hoax. Wiesel published two volumes of memoirs. The first, "All Rivers Run

title: Elie Wiesel

text: and farmer from a nearby village. Dodye was active and trusted within the community. Wiesel's father, Shlomo, instilled a strong sense of humanism in his son, encouraging him to learn Hebrew and to read literature, whereas his mother encouraged him to study the Torah. Wiesel has said his father represented reason, while his mother Sarah promoted faith. Wiesel was instructed that his genealogy traced back to Rabbi Schlomo, son of Yitzhak, and was a descendant of Rabbi Yeshayahu ben Abraham Horovitz ha-Levi, an author. Wiesel had three siblings—older sisters Beatrice and Hilda, and younger sister Tzipora. Beatrice and Hilda survived

title: Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity

text: the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity from seeing the growing need for safe and educational centers for the Ethiopian-Jewish refugees in Israel. Two Beit Tzipora Centers were founded in Israel, in Asheklon and Kiryat Malachi. The centers’ missions are to educate the community of Ethiopian-Jews in Israel and give the Ethiopian-Israeli young people the chance to be knowledgeable enough to participate fully in society. Together the two locations of the Beit Tzipora Centers provide more than 1,000 children with after-school programs. Formally inaugurated on July 25, 2007, the former Ashkelon center was made-over with new classrooms, technology and an auditorium.

title: Elie Wiesel

text: toured Buchenwald. Wiesel was an adviser at the Gatestone Institute. In 2010, Wiesel accepted a five-year appointment as a Distinguished Presidential Fellow at Chapman University in Orange County, California. In that role, he made a one-week visit to Chapman annually to meet with students and offer his perspective on subjects ranging from Holocaust history to religion, languages, literature, law and music. In July 2009, Wiesel announced his support to the minority Tamils in Sri Lanka. He said that, "Wherever minorities are being persecuted, we must raise our voices to protest ... The Tamil people are being disenfranchised and victimized by

title: Elie Wiesel

text: the killers they were not human beings! They were Jews! In early 2006 Wiesel accompanied Oprah Winfrey as she visited Auschwitz, a visit which was broadcast as part of "The Oprah Winfrey Show". On November 30, 2006, Wiesel received a knighthood in London in recognition of his work toward raising Holocaust education in the United Kingdom. In September 2006, he appeared before the UN Security Council with actor George Clooney to call attention to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. When Wiesel died, Clooney wrote, "We had a champion who carried our pain, our guilt, and our responsibility on his shoulders

title: Elie Wiesel

text: the Museum's vision of a world where people confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity". The Foundation had invested its endowment in money manager Bernard L. Madoff's investment Ponzi scheme, costing the Foundation $15 million and Wiesel and his wife much of their own personal savings. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for speaking out against violence, repression, and racism. The Norwegian Nobel Committee described Wiesel as "one of the most important spiritual leaders and guides in an age when violence, repression, and racism continue to characterize the world". Wiesel explained his feelings during his acceptance

title: Day (Wiesel novel)

text: listens and questions." "Day" is the fictional story of a Holocaust survivor who is struck by a taxicab in New York City. While recovering from his injuries, the character reflects on his relationships and experiences during the Second World War, coming to terms with his survival and the deaths of his family and friends. The book was published in the UK as The Accident. Day (Wiesel novel) Day, published in 1962, is the third book in a trilogy by Elie Wiesel—"Night", "Dawn", and "Day"—describing his experiences and thoughts during and after the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel is well-known for his memoir

title: Elie Wiesel

text: of posthumously baptizing Jews and asked presidential candidate and Latter-day Saint Mitt Romney to denounce it. Romney's campaign declined to comment, directing such questions to church officials. Wiesel died on the morning of July 2, 2016 at his home in Manhattan, aged 87. Utah senator Orrin Hatch paid tribute to Wiesel in a speech on the Senate floor the following week, where he said that, "With Elie's passing, we have lost a beacon of humanity and hope. We have lost a hero of human rights and a luminary of Holocaust literature." In 2018 antisemitic graffiti was found on the house

title: Elie Wiesel

text: award he had received from the Hungarian government. Wiesel was active in trying to prevent Iran from making nuclear weapons, stating that, "The words and actions of the leadership of Iran leave no doubt as to their intentions". He also condemned Hamas for the "use of children as human shields" during the 2014 Israel-Gaza Conflict by running an ad in several large newspapers. "The Times" refused to run the advertisement, saying, "The opinion being expressed is too strong, and too forcefully made, and will cause concern amongst a significant number of "Times" readers." Wiesel often emphasized the Jewish connection to

title: Elie Wiesel

text: the Sri Lanka authorities. This injustice must stop. The Tamil people must be allowed to live in peace and flourish in their homeland." In 2009, Wiesel returned to Hungary for his first visit since the Holocaust. During this visit, Wiesel participated in a conference at the Upper House Chamber of the Hungarian Parliament, met Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai and President László Sólyom, and made a speech to the approximately 10,000 participants of an anti-racist gathering held in Faith Hall. However, in 2012, he protested against "the whitewashing" of Hungary's involvement in the Holocaust, and he gave up the Great Cross

title: Elie Wiesel

text: speech: He received many other prizes and honors for his work, including the Congressional Gold Medal in 1985, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and The International Center in New York's Award of Excellence. He was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1996. Wiesel co-founded "Moment Magazine" with Leonard Fein in 1975. They founded the magazine to provide a voice for American Jews. He was also a member of the International Advisory Board of NGO Monitor. Wiesel became a popular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust. As a political activist, he also advocated for many

title: Elie Wiesel

text: He then was hired as Paris correspondent for the Israeli newspaper "Yedioth Ahronoth", subsequently becoming its roaming international correspondent. For ten years after the war, Wiesel refused to write about or discuss his experiences during the Holocaust. He began to reconsider his decision after a meeting with the French author François Mauriac, the 1952 Nobel Laureate in Literature who eventually became Wiesel's close friend. Mauriac was a devout Christian who had fought in the French Resistance during the war. He compared Wiesel to "Lazarus rising from the dead", and saw from Wiesel's tormented eyes, "the death of God in the

title: Elie Wiesel

text: aux enfants (OSE) had set up a rehabilitation center. Wiesel subsequently joined a smaller group of 90 to 100 boys from Orthodox homes who wanted kosher facilities and a higher level of religious observance; they were cared for in a home in Ambloy under the directorship of Judith Hemmendinger. This home was subsequently moved to Taverny and operated until 1947. Afterwards, Wiesel traveled to Paris where he learned French and studied literature, philosophy and psychology at the Sorbonne. He heard lectures by philosopher Martin Buber and existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre and he spent his evenings reading works by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Franz

title: Elie Wiesel

text: community to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where up to 90 percent of the people were killed on arrival. Immediately after they were sent to Auschwitz, his mother and his younger sister were murdered. Wiesel and his father were selected to perform labor so long as they remained able-bodied, after which they were to be killed in the gas chambers. Wiesel and his father were later deported to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. Until that transfer, he admitted to Oprah Winfrey, his primary motivation for trying to survive Auschwitz was knowing that his father was still alive: "I knew that if

title: Elie Wiesel

text: the war, and were re-united with Wiesel at a French orphanage. They eventually emigrated to North America, with Beatrice moving to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Tzipora, Shlomo, and Sarah did not survive the Holocaust. In March 1944, Germany occupied Hungary, which extended the Holocaust into that country. Wiesel was 15, and he, with his family, along with the rest of the town's Jewish population, was placed in one of the two confinement ghettos set up in Máramarossziget (Sighet), the town where he had been born and raised. In May 1944, the Hungarian authorities, under German pressure, began to deport the Jewish

title: Wiesel Commission

text: Wiesel Commission The Wiesel Commission is the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania, which was established by former President Ion Iliescu in October 2003 to research and create a report on the actual history of the Holocaust in Romania and make specific recommendations for educating the public on the issue. The Commission, which was led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel as well as Jean Ancel, released its report in late 2004. The Romanian government recognized the report's findings and acknowledged the deliberate participation in the Holocaust by the World War II Romanian regime led by Ion Antonescu.

title: Elie Wiesel

text: Jerusalem, and criticized the Obama administration for pressuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt East Jerusalem Israeli settlement construction. He stated that "Jerusalem is above politics. It is mentioned more than six hundred times in Scripture—and not a single time in the Koran ... It belongs to the Jewish people and is much more than a city ..." Wiesel was particularly fond of teaching and held the position of Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Boston University since 1976, where he taught in both its religion and philosophy departments. He became a close friend of the president and

title: Elie Wiesel

text: causes, including Israel, the plight of Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, the victims of "apartheid" in South Africa, Argentina's "Desaparecidos", Bosnian victims of genocide in the former Yugoslavia, Nicaragua's Miskito Indians, and the Kurds. In April 1999, Wiesel delivered the speech "The Perils of Indifference" in Washington D.C., criticizing the people and countries who chose to be indifferent while the Holocaust was happening. He defined indifference as being neutral between two sides, which, in this case, amounts to overlooking the victims of the Holocaust. Throughout the speech, he expressed the view that a little bit of attention, either positive or negative,

title: Elie Wiesel

text: Kafka, and Thomas Mann. By the time he was 19, he had begun working as a journalist, writing in French, while also teaching Hebrew and working as a choirmaster. He wrote for Israeli and French newspapers, including "Tsien in Kamf" (in Yiddish). In 1946, after learning of the Irgun's bombing of the King David Hotel, Wiesel made an unsuccessful attempt to join the underground Zionist movement. In 1948, he translated articles from Hebrew into Yiddish for Irgun periodicals, but never became a member of the organization. In 1949 he traveled to Israel as a correspondent for the French newspaper "L'arche".

title: Elie Wiesel

text: In his political activities, he also campaigned for victims of oppression in places like South Africa, Nicaragua, Kosovo, and Sudan. He publicly condemned the 1915 Armenian Genocide, and remained a strong defender of human rights during his lifetime. He was described as "the most important Jew in America" by the "Los Angeles Times". Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, at which time the Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a "messenger to mankind", stating that through his struggle to come to terms with "his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown

title: Richard Heffner

text: Elie Wiesel on the publication of "Conversations With Elie Wiesel", released by Schochen books in 2001. A protégé of Edward R. Murrow, Heffner helped establish what is now WNET (Channel 13) in New York City and was its first general manager, from 1961–63. From 1974–94 Heffner was chairman of the Classification and Rating Administration (CARA) of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Heffner earned his BA (1946) and MA (1947) degrees in history from Columbia University. He taught two courses at Rutgers University. "Mass Communications and the American Image" is taught through the School of Communication, Information and Library

title: Wiesel AWC

text: ZF automatic transmission. The Wiesel 2 is generally bigger, faster and stronger than the Wiesel 1, with advanced features for the protection of the crew such as enhanced armour, an air conditioning system, and NBC protection. Wiesel AWC The Wiesel Armoured Weapons Carrier (AWC) is a German light air-transportable armoured fighting vehicle, more specifically a lightly armoured weapons carrier. It is quite similar to historical scouting tankettes in size, form and function, and is the only true modern tankette in use in Western Europe. The Wiesel has been used in several of the Bundeswehr's missions abroad (UNOSOM II, IFOR, SFOR,

title: Elie Aron Cohen

text: World War II, Elie Cohen remarried a Jewish woman. They have two children, a daughter and a son. Elie Cohen is the author of a number of books about the Holocaust. The first of these was the Ph.D. thesis on which he graduated on March 11, 1952, at Utrecht State University (supervisor: , professor of psychiatry). The book (in Dutch) was entitled "The German Concentration Camp — a medical-psychological study", and it was one of the first scientific descriptions of what had happened in killing centres such as Auschwitz. It also provided an analysis of the psychology of the SS-men

title: Wiesel AWC

text: can fly in two at once, and common transport planes can carry four or more Wiesel vehicles. The larger Wiesel 2 has almost twice as much internal volume as its predecessor, and is about 4.78 meters long, 2.17 meters high (depending on type), and 1.87 meters wide. Its weight is 4.78 metric tons (about 10,500 lbs) in its heaviest configuration. The Wiesel 2 is a stretched version of the Wiesel 1, with a fifth roadwheel. The engine was changed to a 1.9L Volkswagen in-line four-cylinder turbo diesel with direct injection and intercooler, giving 109 hp (81 kW) coupled to a

title: Wiesel AWC

text: Wiesel AWC The Wiesel Armoured Weapons Carrier (AWC) is a German light air-transportable armoured fighting vehicle, more specifically a lightly armoured weapons carrier. It is quite similar to historical scouting tankettes in size, form and function, and is the only true modern tankette in use in Western Europe. The Wiesel has been used in several of the Bundeswehr's missions abroad (UNOSOM II, IFOR, SFOR, KFOR, TFH, ISAF). The Wiesel was developed for the German Army to meet a requirement for an air-transportable light armored vehicle for use by its airborne troops, as the infantry of the German Bundeswehr, especially airborne

title: Oscar Wiesel

text: The Union of Renaissance of Russia in cooperation with allies in Rome. Oscar Wiesel Oscar Wiesel (20 August 1864 in Saint-Petersburg – 27 September 1918 in Geneva) — Diplomat, Norway researcher, founder of Saami collection of Russian Museum of Ethnography (Saint-Petersburg), Acting State Councillor. Oscar Wiesel descended from the German-Austrian Wiesel family. Father – Oskar Borisovich Wiesel (Wiesel Oscar Sigismund), was born in Russia in 1826, graduated from Prince Bezborodko's Gymnasium of Higher Learning in Nizhyn (currently Nizhyn Gogol State University), worked in the Russian Ministry of Finance, repeatedly visited Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris on behalf of Their Majesties Tsars

title: Oscar Wiesel

text: Oscar Wiesel Oscar Wiesel (20 August 1864 in Saint-Petersburg – 27 September 1918 in Geneva) — Diplomat, Norway researcher, founder of Saami collection of Russian Museum of Ethnography (Saint-Petersburg), Acting State Councillor. Oscar Wiesel descended from the German-Austrian Wiesel family. Father – Oskar Borisovich Wiesel (Wiesel Oscar Sigismund), was born in Russia in 1826, graduated from Prince Bezborodko's Gymnasium of Higher Learning in Nizhyn (currently Nizhyn Gogol State University), worked in the Russian Ministry of Finance, repeatedly visited Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris on behalf of Their Majesties Tsars Alexander II and Alexander III, Acting State Councillor. Mother – Marie Christine

title: Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights

text: who dedicated his life to giving a voice to victims of the Holocaust and speaking out against recent genocides in Rwanda, Cambodia, Bosnia and Darfur. Wiesel famously said, "there may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest". The RWCHR's Chair worked closely with Wiesel for over 50 years helping to, after Wiesel's death on July 2, 2016, create Elie Wiesel Park at the busiest intersection in Côte-St-Luc, Québec. The RWCHR has also written numerous Op-Eds and participated in events and galas dedicated to commemorating this hero

title: Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity

text: D.C.. The foundation opened up two "Beit Tzipora Centers" in Israel for Ethiopian Jews fleeing violence in Africa. The centers are named after Elie Wiesel's younger sister, who was killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp during WWII. The centers were founded in the mid-90s following the rescue of thousands of Ethiopian Jews from Africa, where they were facing persecution and violence. The refugees were transported by plane from Ethiopia to Israel beginning on May 25, 1991. The evacuation consisted of 18,000 Jews and took place over thirty-six hours. Israeli and American governments had been negotiating for over a year with

title: Lolis Eric Elie

text: and "The Layover", both hosted by Anthony Bourdain. Elie is one of the founders of the Southern Foodways Alliance. On July 23, 2013 his book "Treme: Stories and Recipes from the Heart of New Orleans" was released. "Saveur" named the book as one of the Best July Food Books. Lolis Eric Elie Lolis Eric Elie (born April 10, 1963) is an American writer, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and food historian best known for his work as story editor of the HBO drama "Treme" and story editor of AMC's "Hell on Wheels". Elie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the

title: Torsten Wiesel

text: and its chair in 1971. In 1983, Wiesel joined the faculty of Rockefeller University as Vincent and Brooke Astor Professor and head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology. He was president of the university from 1991 to 1998. At Rockefeller University he remains the director of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior. From 2000-2009, Wiesel served as Secretary-General of the Human Frontier Science Program, an organization headquartered in Strasbourg, France, which supports international and interdisciplinary collaboration between investigators in the life sciences. Wiesel also has chaired the scientific advisory board of China's National Institute of

title: Emil Wiesel

text: Cormon’s studio, which was famous during that period, being a place where academism could contest with the strengthening impressionism. Cormon’s classes were attended by such distinctive artists as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh. It was Cormon who showed Wiesel new graphic methods that became a basis of his impressionistic picture technique that relied not on the outline but on treatment of light and shade. Wiesel has also studied in Académie Colarossi in Paris. Wiesel was recognized as a mature artist after his and Endogurov’s paintings were started to exhibit in Paris Salons (1894 and 1901). At the beginning

title: Elie Susman

text: He held the first mining license over what became the Rhokana mine. In 1930, he was one of the original directors who set up Northern Caterers Ltd., based in Kitwe, which operated hotels and bakeries in Luanshya, Nchanga, Nkana, and Mufulira. In the same year, he left Northern Rhodesia and went to South Africa where, with a friend from Bechuanaland, Max Sonnenberg, they established the Woolworths stores in Transvaal; Susman served as the Resident director. He also was associated with Elie Susman Investments and Elie Susman Zambia Trust. Elie Susman Elie Susman (sometimes: Elia) (1880-1957) was the founder of Susman

title: Emil Wiesel

text: the Academy of Arts Museum (1915). There survives his fundamental scientific work “The interrelation of visual perceptions and the expression of fine art” (1930). During the period of Stalin’s repressions, Emil Wiesel, his wife, his son Oscar Wiesel (ethno-linguist, professor of Institute of Oriental Studies in Leningrad (St. Petersburg)) with his wife Vera Sholpo, and Emil’s grandson Andrey Wiesel were sent to Kazakhstan, to the village Chelkar (1935). Despite financial and living difficulties, Emil Wiesel and Vera Sholpo, both artists, continued creating portraits and landscapes, now on the Central Asian plot. Emil Wiesel and his wife managed to return to

title: Imagining Madoff

text: in losses to a charitable foundation Wiesel operated, the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, with Wiesel calling Madoff a "thief, scoundrel, criminal". Wiesel had been chosen as a character by Margolin because she felt that he was "synonymous with decency, morality, the struggle for human dignity and kindness". In Margolin's original version of the play, the Elie Wiesel character was intended to be a moral authority and key character in the play, in which he recounted his concentration camp experiences and provided meditations on repentance. Margolin sent a copy of the play to Wiesel, who responded in April 2010 with

title: Elie Tahari

text: Elie Tahari Elie Tahari (born 1952) is an Iranian Israeli fashion designer. He is the designer of ready-to-wear clothing and fashion accessories. His company is headquartered in New York City, with stores located throughout the world. Tahari was born the middle son of an Iranian Jewish couple in 1952. He has four sisters, Aliza, Diana, Shulie and Illana, and two brothers, Avraham and Yosi. The family immigrated to Israel from Iran and lived in a ma'abara transit camp in what is now Mevasseret Zion. In 1953–1957, the family went back to Iran, returning later to Israel. When his parents divorced

title: Elie Tahari

title: Jennifer Elie

text: round. She is coached by her father Kerner Elie. Jennifer Elie Jennifer Elie (born September 22, 1986) is an American tennis player. Elie achieved her career high WTA singles ranking of 221 on January 30, 2017, and has won 2 singles titles on the ITF circuit. In doubles, she has been ranked as high as 240 on October 29, 2012, and has won 5 ITF doubles titles. Elie made her WTA main draw debut at the 2012 Texas Tennis Open, partnering Asia Muhammad to reach the quarterfinals of the doubles tournament. The same year, she partnered Sesil Karatantcheva at the

title: Charles Weinblatt

text: Training and Development and the Northwest Ohio Human Resources Association. He was a frequent Toledo television news guest on the subject of business, economic and labor-management issues. Weinblatt has been a prolific reviewer for the New York Journal of Books from 2008 to the present. While he has reviewed many notable fiction and non-fiction books from some of the best publishers and authors in the world, his specialty has been publisher requests for books about WWII, the Holocaust and other Jewish topics. Weinblatt had the honor to review unpublished books by many fine authors, including Elie Wiesel. From 1988 until

title: Wiesel AWC

text: II). The Wiesel 2 is an enlarged and extended version of the Wiesel 1 with five road wheels instead of four, and a more powerful engine. The Bundeswehr ordered 178 of the new vehicle in various types, including air defense, radar, and anti-aircraft missile launcher, 120 mm mortar carrier, command and fire control, and ambulance variants. The Wiesel 2 entered service in 2001. Depending on the exact configuration, the Wiesel 1's length is about 3.55 meters, height 1.82 meters, and width 1.82 meters. At only 2.75 metric tons, it weighs less than the armored variant of the U.S. Humvee military

title: Torsten Wiesel

text: as part of a report detailing their allegations of abuse of science under President George W. Bush's administration. Wiesel was among the eight 2005 recipients of the National Medal of Science. In 2006, he was awarded the Ramon Y Cajal Gold Medal from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC - "Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas"). In 2007, both Wiesel and Hubel were awarded the Marshall M. Parks, MD Medal from The Children's Eye Foundation. Wiesel is married to Lizette Mususa Reyes (m. 2008). Wiesel was married to Teeri Stenhammar from 1956-1970, Ann Yee from 1973-1981, and author and editor Jean

title: Oscar Wiesel

text: interested in researching the Sami people, a local ethnic group. In 1904 and 1914 Oscar Wiesel presented two collections to The Russian Museum of Ethnography, Saint Petersburg, of more than 100 pieces, which would become the core part of the Saami Collection of the museum. It included clothing, shoes, jewellery, household items, harnesses, fishing tackles, boats, etc. Some items had earlier been presented to Oscar Wiesel by the well-known Saami researcher Konstantin Shekoldin, the Archpriest of the Saint Boris and Gleb Church. In the revolutionary 1917, Oscar Wiesel was appointed general consul in Naples. Oscar Wiesel was the member of

title: Elie Aron Cohen

text: who manned these camps. At that time there was little interest in the Netherlands in recounting these events, but surprisingly the thesis was much in demand. It was later translated into English, Swedish and Japanese. Elie Cohen went on to write a number of books and publications about extermination camps such as Auschwitz and Sobibor and their survivors. He was instrumental in obtaining recognition in the Netherlands of the "post-concentration camp syndrome" from which many survivors came to suffer in their later years. Elie Cohen's biography (in Dutch) on the site of the digital library of Dutch letters Elie Aron

title: Jennifer Elie

text: Jennifer Elie Jennifer Elie (born September 22, 1986) is an American tennis player. Elie achieved her career high WTA singles ranking of 221 on January 30, 2017, and has won 2 singles titles on the ITF circuit. In doubles, she has been ranked as high as 240 on October 29, 2012, and has won 5 ITF doubles titles. Elie made her WTA main draw debut at the 2012 Texas Tennis Open, partnering Asia Muhammad to reach the quarterfinals of the doubles tournament. The same year, she partnered Sesil Karatantcheva at the 2012 Bell Challenge, but they lost in the first

title: Elie Kedourie

text: Elie Kedourie Elie Kedourie, (25 January 1926 – 29 June 1992, Washington) was a British historian of the Middle East. He wrote from a conservative perspective, dissenting from many points of view taken as orthodox in the field. He was employed at the London School of Economics (LSE) from 1953 to 1990, becoming Professor of Politics. Kedourie was famous for his rejection of what he called the "Chatham House version" of history, which viewed the story of the modern Middle East as one of continuous victimisation at the hands of the West, and instead castigated left-wing Western intellectuals for what

title: Lolis Eric Elie

text: Lolis Eric Elie Lolis Eric Elie (born April 10, 1963) is an American writer, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and food historian best known for his work as story editor of the HBO drama "Treme" and story editor of AMC's "Hell on Wheels". Elie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the son of Lolis Edward Elie, a civil rights attorney and Dr. Gerri Elie, a school principal and university professor. He has an older sister, Miguel Elizabeth Elie. Elie is an alumnus of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) and a 1981 graduate of Benjamin Franklin High School.

title: Paul Elie

text: contributor to the American Catholic journal "Commonweal". Don Brophy, managing editor for the Catholic book publisher Paulist Press, includes "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" in his 2007 book "One Hundred Great Catholic Books from the Early Centuries to the Present." He wrote the afterword for "13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty" by Mario Marazziti, published by Seven Stories Press in March 2015. Paul Elie Paul Elie (born 1965) is an American writer and editor. Born in New York City, he holds a Bachelor of Arts from Fordham University and a Master of Fine Arts from

title: Imagining Madoff

text: Imagining Madoff Imagining Madoff is a 2010 play by playwright Deb Margolin that tells the story of an imagined encounter between Bernard Madoff, the admitted operator of what has been described as the largest Ponzi scheme in history, and his victims. Margolin had originally planned to use Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel as a character representing a victim, but was obliged by legal threats to substitute a fictional character, whom she named Solomon Galkin. Wiesel had been one of Madoff's most notable victims, having lost his life savings to Madoff's fraud in addition to more than $15 million

title: Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You?

text: Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You? "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You?" is a song written by Stevie Nicks and Keith Olsen off the 1985 album "Rock a Little". It was also released as a single in 1986, peaking at #60 for two weeks on the "Billboard" Hot 100. During "VH1 Storytellers", Nicks explained that "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You?" was written about the death of Joe Walsh's eldest daughter, Emma Kristen, and his subsequent penning of "Song for Emma" from the album "So What". "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You?" appears on the 1991

title: Torsten Wiesel

text: Stein from 1995-2007. His daughter Sara Elisabeth was born in 1975. Wiesel has done much work as a global human rights advocate. He served for 10 years (1994–2004) as chair of the Committee of Human Rights of the National Academies of Science in the U.S.A., as well as the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies. He was awarded the David Rall Medal from the Institute of Medicine in 2005, in recognition of this important work. In 2009, Wiesel was awarded the Grand Cordon Order of the Rising Sun Medal in Japan. He is a founding member of

title: Elisha Wiesel

text: J. Aron division of Goldman Sachs in 1994. He became a managing director in 2002 and a partner in 2004. He later served as the chief risk officer of its securities division and global head of its securities division desk strategists. In January 2017, he succeeded R. Martin Chavez as its chief information officer. Wiesel has organized fundraisers for Good Shepherd Services, a Brooklyn-based after-school program charity, at Goldman Sachs since 2013. Wiesel criticized president-elect Donald Trump's policies at an event held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on November 30, 2016. At another event held at the Museum

title: Elie Wiesel

text: is better than no attention at all. In 2003 he discovered and publicized the fact that at least 280,000 Romanian and Ukrainian Jews, along with other groups, were massacred in Romanian-run death camps. In 2005, he gave a speech at the opening ceremony of the new Holocaust History Museum where he said: I know what people say – it is so easy. Those that were there won't agree with that statement. The statement is: it was man's inhumanity to man. NO! It was man's inhumanity to Jews! Jews were not killed because they were human beings. In the eyes of

title: Mark Podwal

text: Art, Fogg Art Museum, the Jewish Museum in Prague, and the Library of Congress. Beyond his works on paper, Podwal’s artistry has been employed in an array of diverse projects, including the design of a series of decorative plates for the Metropolitan Museum of Art: "Passover Plate", "Zodiac Platter" (Met Bestseller), and "Life Cycle" (Met Bestseller). His work has been animated for public television in "A Passover Seder with Elie Wiesel" (Time Warner), engraved on a Congressional Gold Medal presented by President Reagan to Elie Wiesel, and woven into an Aubusson tapestry that adorns the ark in the main sanctuary

title: Torsten Wiesel

text: the Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization, a nongovernmental nonprofit established in 2004 to support collaborative research between scientists in Israel and Palestine. Torsten Wiesel Torsten Nils Wiesel (born 3 June 1924) is a Swedish neurophysiologist. Together with David H. Hubel, he received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres. Wiesel was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1924, the youngest of five children. In 1947, he began his scientific career in Carl Gustaf Bernhard's laboratory at

title: Torsten Wiesel

text: of Health to advise on assisting research in developing countries. Republican Tommy Thompson, who at the time was Secretary of Health and Human Services, rejected Wiesel. In addition to Wiesel, Thompson's office rejected another 18 (out of 26) nominations and in return recommended other scientists that whistleblower Gerald Keusch described in an interview as "lightweights" with "no scientific credibility". When Wiesel's name was rejected, an official in Thompson's office told Keusch that Wiesel had "signed too many full-page letters in The New York Times critical of President Bush." This incident was cited by the advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists

title: Torsten Wiesel

text: Torsten Wiesel Torsten Nils Wiesel (born 3 June 1924) is a Swedish neurophysiologist. Together with David H. Hubel, he received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres. Wiesel was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1924, the youngest of five children. In 1947, he began his scientific career in Carl Gustaf Bernhard's laboratory at the Karolinska Institute, where he received his medical degree in 1954. He went on to teach in the Institute's department

title: Emil Wiesel

text: a house on the Medumi lake (Medumi, Latvia), and the village Grinishki (nowadays Teteri, Latvia). Emil Wiesel Emíl Wíesel (1 March 1866, Saint-Petersburg – 2 May 1943, Leningrad) – a painter, museum curator and a board member of the Imperial Academy of Arts, Russia (since 1914), organizer of international art exhibitions, councilor of Hermitage and Russian museum and Legion of Honor holder. During soviet times he was an expert in Russian and Western fine arts and sculpture in the Glavnauka (central administrative board of science, science-artistic and museum institutions) museum department. Emil Oskarovich Wiesel (Wiesel Emil Anton Joseph) – baron,

title: Emil Wiesel

text: Leningrad after two years thanks to a close family friend Vladimir Sofronitsky. One year later his son Oscar Wiesel and family also left Kazakhstan. Since they were not allowed to settle in Moscow or Leningrad, they chose Kazan as a place of living, a city with a university, rich with museums, theaters and intellectual and artistic life, where both an artist and a linguist could find a job. The Siege of Leningrad was the last challenge to Emil Wiesel. He died at the age of 77 years in 1943. Saint-Petersburg, 4th Line (Liniya), Vasilyevsky Island, 1. The family Wiesel owned

title: Emil Wiesel

text: the German-Austrian Wiesel family. Father – Oskar Borisovich Wiesel (Wiesel Oscar Sigismund), born in Russia in 1826, graduated from Prince Bezborodko's Gymnasium of Higher Learning in Nizhyn (nowadays Nizhyn Gogol State University), worked in the Russian Ministry of Finance, repeatedly visited Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris on behalf of their Majesties tsars Alexander II and Alexander III. Mother – Marie Christine de Pointin was born in 1835. Her father Fransois de Pointin who had family roots from the French province of Picardy was born at Louis XVIII's court in exile in Warsaw. He was notable for building the silver iconostasis of the

title: Emil Wiesel

text: Emil Wiesel Emíl Wíesel (1 March 1866, Saint-Petersburg – 2 May 1943, Leningrad) – a painter, museum curator and a board member of the Imperial Academy of Arts, Russia (since 1914), organizer of international art exhibitions, councilor of Hermitage and Russian museum and Legion of Honor holder. During soviet times he was an expert in Russian and Western fine arts and sculpture in the Glavnauka (central administrative board of science, science-artistic and museum institutions) museum department. Emil Oskarovich Wiesel (Wiesel Emil Anton Joseph) – baron, the son of Acting State Councilor (rank in civil service in pre-1917 Russia), descended from

title: Wiesel AWC

text: weapon system for the Bundeswehr with deliveries beginning in the late 1980s. The vehicle was named "Wiesel" ("weasel") because of its small size and agility, which make it very difficult to detect on the battlefield. Production of the Wiesel 1 ended in 1993. Of 343 Wiesel 1 vehicles, 210 were armed with Raytheon TOW wire-guided anti-tank guided missile system and 133 have the one-man KUKA turret E6-II-A1 armed with the dual-feed Rheinmetall Mk 20 RH-202 20 mm autocannon. Germany deployed both types to Somalia in 1993 as part of the United Nations forces intervention in the Somali Civil War (UNISOM

title: Jerzy Kosiński

text: document real-world events, accusations of anti-Polish sentiment may result only from taking it too literally. The book received recommendations from Elie Wiesel who wrote in "The New York Times Book Review" that it was "one of the best ... Written with deep sincerity and sensitivity." Richard Kluger, reviewing it for "Harper's Magazine" wrote: "Extraordinary ... literally staggering ... one of the most powerful books I have ever read." Jonathon Yardley, reviewing it for "The Miami Herald", wrote: "Of all the remarkable fiction that emerged from World War II, nothing stands higher than Jerzy Kosiński's "The Painted Bird". A magnificent work

title: Mario Elie

text: He had a brother named Clark, an amateur basketball player who died in a car accident in October 2009. He also has a sister named Nancy. Elie attended Power Memorial Academy, where he played basketball alongside Chris Mullin under coach Steve Donohue. Elie played street ball in Central Park and other locations in New York City during the 1980s, earning the nickname "The Jedi" on the New York playgrounds. Elie played college basketball at American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he led AIC to the NCAA Division II Tournament Quarter-Final. Elie was selected with the 160th pick (out of

title: Elie Horn

text: their wealth over their lifetime to charitable causes. Elie was the first Brazilian to do so. Horn is married to Susy and has three children. Elie Horn Elie (Eli) Horn (born in 1944) is a Brazilian-Jewish businessman and philanthropist operating in Brazil, and president of Cyrela Brazil Realty. As of 2018 he is reported to have a net worth of $1.02 billion. Elie Horn was born to a Jewish family in Aleppo (then under the French Mandate for Syria). His family emigrated to Brazil when he was 11. As a teenager, he began working with his brother, Joe Horn, in

title: Elie Seckbach

text: worked as a boxing correspondent for AOL Sports FanHouse before going on to establish his own boxing video news website. FOX 11 News in Los Angeles have interviewed Seckbach about his boxing coverage YouTube reporter Elie Seckbach talks boxing for ESNews, Internet hate and more Elie Seckbach Elie Seckbach is an Israeli -born, American writer who has been covering the NBA since 1997 along with Boxing and Olympic Sports. His YouTube Channel EsNews has over 626 Million views and over 337,000 Subscribers. He has worked for the Los Angeles Daily News , CBS-TV, NBC-TV, FOX 11 NEWS as well as

title: Eli Rubenstein

text: featuring Elie Wiesel's return to Auschwitz with Oprah Winfrey. In April 2017, Elisha Wiesel, the only son of Elie Wiesel, accepted an invitation from Eli Rubenstein to attend the March of the Living, where he lit a torch in memory of his father and delivered a speech to the estimated 10,000 participants. "It is a reminder to all of us that we are the next generation. We must all pick up the torch," Rubenstein commented, in an article in The New York Times that appeared after the event. Over the years, Toronto has consistently brought the single largest delegation on

title: Lolis Eric Elie

text: the New Orleans "Times-Picayune". During this time he wrote several books, including "Smokestack Lightning: Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue Country", a book that gained a cult-like following among food enthusiasts. Elie also wrote and produced the award-winning documentary "" (2008), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, was a winner at the 2008 San Francisco International Film Festival, and which made its TV debut on PBS in 2009. After leaving the "Times Picayune" in 2009, Elie became the story editor for HBO's "Treme". He wrote the episodes "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say", "Shame, Shame, Shame" and "Santa

title: Elie Bursztein

text: diablo 3 and league of legend. In 2014 at Defcon he showed how to use machine learning to predict what the opponent will play for the card based game Hearthstone. At Blizzard request the tool was never made public. Some of his notable achievements in web and mobile security include: Notable awards: Elie Bursztein Elie Bursztein (born 1 June 1980) leads the anti-abuse research team at Google. He is best known for his research on anti-fraud and abuse, his novel attacks against web service and video games and his work on applied cryptography. Prior to Google Bursztein was a post-doctoral

title: Jean Ancel

text: investigator at Yad Vashem and the author of a few history books, some of which have been translated into Romanian. He edited 12 volumes of original documents, mostly about the Holocaust in Romania. He was a leading member of a committee of historians headed by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, which was convened by the President of Romania to the Wiesel Commission. Thanks to his studies on the subject, Ancel changed the perception of Romania's role in the Holocaust. According to his research, which he conducted using Romania's own archives (made available after the fall of the Soviet

text: this hero of humanity. On February 8, 2018, the RWCHR co-hosted a screening of the documentary "Nemtsov" at Queen's Park, Toronto, Canada, preceding a discussion with the RWCHR's Chair, Vladimir Kara-Murza and Peter MacKay. On March 9, 2016, the RWCHR co-sponsored the first annual Boris Nemtsov Memorial Russia Freedom Forum. The RWCHR has also co-authored an Op-Ed in the "Ottawa Citizen" urging the Canadian Government to follow the United States and Lithuania's lead in adopting Nemtsov commemorations by doing such things as renaming a park or bridge. Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner

title: David Rosenthal (musician)

text: Philharmonic (released on DVD in 2002). In 2010, Rosenthal performed with the late Elie Wiesel for a concert in New York City titled "Memories and Melodies of My Childhood". The show was produced by legendary producer Phil Ramone and featured Rosenthal's orchestration. The concert featured Elie singing songs as he remembered them from his childhood and was accompanied by an orchestra and choir. The show was filmed and released on DVD, also titled "Elie Wiesel – Memories and Melodies from my Childhood" (2011). Rosenthal's other orchestration credits include Billy Joel's "Last Play at Shea" and "Live at Shea Stadium" (2011),

title: Monsieur Chouchani

text: and its multiple layers of subsequent commentary not merely as a place where "all that can ever be thought has been thought of already," but also as a framework for his reconciliation of ethics, phenomenology and postmodernity. Elie Wiesel described his initial 1947 encounter with Chouchani in "Legends of Our Times" (Chapter 10). Wiesel writes that Chouchani was "dirty," "hairy," and "ugly;" a "vagabond" who accosted and berated him in Paris in 1947, and then became his mentor. Wiesel wrote of him again in his memoir "All Rivers Run to the Sea" (pp. 121–130). Wiesel credits Chouchani as being one

title: Elie Golf Club

text: Elie Golf Club Elie Golf Club, also known as Earlsferry Links Golf Course, is a coastal links golf club in Elie and Earlsferry, Fife, Scotland. Only about ten miles from the "spiritual home of golf" at The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, golf has been played here since at least 1589, when a royal charter was passed granting villagers permission to use the links. The formal club, the Elie and Earlsferry Golf Club, dates to 1832 and is one of the oldest golf clubs in the United Kingdom. The current course, a par 70 6251-yard course, was