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Elie Wiesel

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Also known as Eliezer Wiesel, A-7713, Élie Wiesel

Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)

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Elie Wiesel was a male person from Israel who began his work period in 1956 and ended it in 2016. He was affiliated with Boston University. He is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Nobel Peace collection.

He was born on September 30, 1928, and died on July 2, 2016. He received one Nobel Prize. His notable works include *La nuit*, *Feel deeper*, *It Is Impossible to Remain Silent*, and *Rassypannye iskry*. He also wrote for *Prentice Hall Literature--Florida--Language and Literacy*.

His writings include the statements: "Some writings could sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds," "Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open," and "If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching."

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Person · Open Library

Born
September 30, 1928
Died
July 2, 2016
Works
414

Top works

  • Rassypannye iskry
  • La nuit
  • Feel deeper
  • It Is Impossible to Remain Silent
  • Prentice Hall Literature--Florida--Language and Literacy

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Israel
Active from
1928-09-30
Active to
2016-07-02
Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
453
Total plays
5,829

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Elie Wiesel is a Romanian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including 'Night', a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps. Wiesel is also the Advisory Board chairman of the Algemeiner Journal newspaper. When Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a "messenger to mankind". <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Elie+Wiesel">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

    · 2021 · cited 84,779x

  2. PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation

    · 2018 · cited 36,179x

  3. Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex

    · 1962 · cited 10,395x

  4. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

    · 2018 · cited 9,646x

  5. GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction—GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables

    · 2011 · cited 9,182x

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Quotes

  • “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
  • “Some writings could sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.”
  • “Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.”
  • “If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.”
  • “What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.”
  • “I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Peace Prize1986

    “for being a messenger to mankind: his message is one of peace, atonement and dignity”

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Encyclopedic overview

Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, which is based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Holocaust.

As a political activist, Wiesel became a regular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust and remained a strong defender of human rights during his lifetime, advocating for justice in numerous causes around the globe, including that of Soviet Jews and Ethiopian Jews, South African apartheid, the Rwandan genocide, the Bosnian genocide, the War in Darfur, the Kurdish independence movement, the Armenian genocide, Argentina's Desaparecidos, Nicaragua's Miskito people, the Sri Lankan Tamils, and the Cambodian genocide. He was also an outspoken advocate for Israel and frequently weighed in to support the country during escalations of the Arab–Israeli conflict and throughout the Iran–Israel proxy conflict. He backed Netanyahu publicly, including his controversial 2015 Congress speech on Iran, and signed ads praising Jewish settlers in Silwan. He claimed Jerusalem "belongs to the Jewish people" and opposed territorial compromise there. He also hosted direct talks to facilitate the Israeli–Palestinian peace process.

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