A Jew today
By: Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Marion Wiesel.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780394420547
Subjects: Wiesel, Elie, 1928-; Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography; Judaism
Description: What does it mean to be a Jew today -- in America, in Europe, in Israel? Elie Wiesel, whom both the New York Times Book Review and Le Monde have called "one of the great writers of this generation," addresses himself to the question from the unique perspective of one whose whole life has been informed by the sense of his Jewishness -- from his early childhood in a small town in Transylvania, when he lived through Jewish history with each year's holidays and learned that "to be a Jew meant creating links, a network of continuity," through his adolescence in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, where to be a Jew meant to be marked for extermination, to the present, when some people are already denying the reality of the Holocaust and when Israel inspires both ultimate fear and ultimate hope. This wide-ranging book weaves together all the periods of the author's life, presenting unforgettable portraits of some of the people he has known along the way who have, in different ways, been important to him. - Jacket flap.
Notes: Translation of Un Juif aujourd'hui.
Table of contents: title: 1. Words and memories.; title: To be a Jew; title: An interview unlike any other; title: A quest for Jerusalem; title: 2. Excerpts from a diary.; title: Biafra, the end; title: Accomplices; title: Zionism and racism; title: Why I am afraid; title: The heirs; title: What did happen to the six million?; title: Why Solzhenitsyn troubles me; title: Dateline : Johannesburg; title: A house of strangers; title: 3. Portraits from the past.; title: Dodye Feig; title: The scrolls, too, are mortal; title: The graveyard penitent; title: 4. Letters.; title: To a young Palestinian Arab; title: To a brother in Israel; title: To a young Jew in Soviet Russia; title: 5. Legends of today; title: 6. Dialogues.; title: A father and his son; title: A mother and her daughter; title: A man and his little sister; title: 7. A Jew today.; title: Against despair; title: The Jew and war; title: A plea for the survivors; title: About the author