Bøger af ELIE WIESEL

»Jeg har fortalt lidt om min fortid, ikke for at I skal forstå den, men for at I skal vide, at I aldrig kommer til at forstå den«. Sådan skriver den jødiske forfatter, professor og politiske aktivist Elie Wiesel bl.a. om sine oplevelser under og efter 2. Verdenskrig.I Rosinantes klassikerserie har vi nyoversat hans selvbiografiske romantriologi  Natten, Daggry og Dagen, der for første gang udkommer samlet på dansk – tre romaner, der er små af omfang men bærer på historier af stor tyngde. Her med forord af Herman Pundik.Natten, der udkom i 1958, fortæller om jøderne i byen Sighet og deportationen til udryddelseslejrene. Daggry handler om den unge Elisha, der som deltager i kampen for et selvstændigt Israel bliver udvalgt til at skyde en engelsk officer, som jøderne holder som gidsel. Dagen er beretningen om en mand i New York, der er kommet alvorligt til skade ved en ulykke, og som – mens han svæver mellem liv og død – hjemsøges af forfærdelige minder fra krigens tid.Pressen skriver:»Elie Wiesels skæbne er fantastisk, en eksercits i lidelse, og samtidig en fortælling om lidelsens veje … Fortællingerne udmærker sig ved en massiv stoflighed i sproget og et nærmest fysisk intimiderende nærvær i begivenhedsforløbet.«**** – Johs. H. Christensen, Jyllands-Posten»Elie Wiesels bøger er hård kost. Han skriver på en lammende følelse af ensomhed og illusionsløshed, der hele tiden bringer ham i frivillig nærhed af døden og dødslængslen … Her er Wiesel rå og direkte, og det virker så stærkt, fordi han skriver enkelt og nøgternt.«– Peter Nielsen, Information »…vigtige og bevægende vidnesbyrd om at leve videre med erindringerne om de rædsler, der befinder sig uden for sproget og det normale liv…«– Jørgen Johansen, Berlingske

Night, Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the Holocaust, is a devastating exploration of the darkest side of human nature and the enduring power of hope.Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's perspective, Night is among the most personal, intimate and poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust. Translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel'A slim volume of terrifying power' The New York Times'To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a record' Alfred Kazin'Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art' Curt Leviant, Saturday Review

A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man.Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.

"Night" -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as "The Diary Of Anne Frank," "Night" awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it the unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.

From the author of "Night," the latest pick by Oprah's Book Club(. Two men wait through the night in British-controlled Palestine for dawn. One is a captured English officer. The other is a young Israeli freedom fighter whose assignment is to kill the officer in reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner.

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel graces the miraculous tale of the Haggadah with his inspired, poetic interpretations, reminiscences, and instructive retellings of ancient legends that interweave past and present. The keepsake edition is further enhanced by over 40 of Mark Podwal's ingenious and inventive drawings.

Originally published: New York: Random House, Ã1976.

A New Translation From The French By Marion WieselNight is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man.Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.

The Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)A Play by Elie WieselTranslated by Marion WieselIntroduction by Robert McAfee BrownAfterword by Matthew Fox Where is God when innocent human beings suffer? This drama lays bare the most vexing questions confronting the moral imagination. Set in a Ukranian village in the year 1649, this haunting play takes place in the aftermath of a pogrom. Only two Jews, Berish the innkeeper and his daughter Hannah, have survived the brutal Cossack raids. When three itinerant actors arrive in town to perform a Purim play, Berish demands that they stage a mock trial of God instead, indicting Him for His silence in the face of evil. Berish, a latter-day Job, is ready to take on the role of prosecutor. But who will defend God? A mysterious stranger named Sam, who seems oddly familiar to everyone present, shows up just in time to volunteer. The idea for this play came from an event that Elie Wiesel witnessed as a boy in Auschwitz: "Three rabbis-all erudite and pious men-decided one evening to indict God for allowing His children to be massacred. I remember: I was there, and I felt like crying. But there nobody cried." Inspired and challenged by this play, Christian theologians Robert McAfee Brown and Matthew Fox, in a new Introduction and Afterword, join Elie Wiesel in the search for faith in a world where God is silent.

This unique research bibliography is offered in honor of Leo Eitinger of Oslo, Norway

Elie Wiesel's Dawn is an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings. "The author . . . has built knowledge into artistic fiction." -The New York Times Book ReviewElisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel's ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative. Caught between the manifold horrors of the past and the troubling dilemmas of the present, Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and ultimately God as he waits for the appointed hour and his act of assassination. The basis for the 2014 film of the same name, now available on streaming and home video.