Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel’s Followers (4,547)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Elie Wiesel


Born
in Sighet, Kingdom of Romania
September 30, 1928

Died
July 02, 2016

Website

Genre


Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel 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, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
In his political activities Wiesel became a regular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust and remained a strong defender of human rights during his lifetime. He also advocated for many other causes like the state of Israel and against Hamas and victims of oppression including Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, the apartheid in South Africa, the Bosnian genocide, Sudan, the Kurds and the Armenian genocide, Argentina's Desaparecidos or Nicara
...more

Average rating: 4.36 · 1,431,663 ratings · 48,658 reviews · 274 distinct worksSimilar authors
Night

by
4.38 avg rating — 1,359,072 ratings — published 1956
Rate this book
Clear rating
Dawn

by
3.83 avg rating — 23,045 ratings — published 1960 — 78 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Day

by
3.79 avg rating — 14,044 ratings — published 2006 — 61 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Night Trilogy: Night, D...

by
4.28 avg rating — 5,508 ratings — published 1961 — 64 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Open Heart

by
3.89 avg rating — 2,721 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Trial of God: (as it wa...

by
4.14 avg rating — 1,535 ratings — published 1979 — 19 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
All Rivers Run to the Sea

4.12 avg rating — 1,325 ratings — published 1994
Rate this book
Clear rating
Twilight

by
3.88 avg rating — 1,137 ratings — published 1987 — 18 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Hostage

by
3.49 avg rating — 1,120 ratings — published 2010 — 20 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
A Mad Desire to Dance

3.28 avg rating — 989 ratings — published 2006 — 26 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Elie Wiesel…
Night Dawn Day
(3 books)
by
4.37 avg rating — 1,401,559 ratings

All Rivers Run to the Sea And the Sea is Never Full
(2 books)
by
4.13 avg rating — 1,564 ratings

Quotes by Elie Wiesel  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
Elie Wiesel

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
Elie Wiesel

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
Elie Wiesel

Polls

March 2015 New School Classic Poll

Which book should we choose for our March 2015 New School group read?

1925, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, 194 pages
 
  11 votes, 23.4%

 
  7 votes, 14.9%

1959, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, 311 pages
 
  4 votes, 8.5%

 
  4 votes, 8.5%

 
  4 votes, 8.5%

1938, The Long Valley by John Steinbeck, 142 pages
 
  3 votes, 6.4%

1959, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, 204 pages
 
  3 votes, 6.4%

1944, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages
 
  2 votes, 4.3%

1957, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 304 pages
 
  2 votes, 4.3%

1996, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pages
 
  2 votes, 4.3%

1921, The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer, 274 pages
 
  2 votes, 4.3%

1981, Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark, 217 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.1%

1958, Night by Elie Wiesel, 115 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.1%

1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 305 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.1%

1902, The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason, 284 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

1905, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 351 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
The Next Best Boo...: OFFICIAL SPRING CHALLENGE - 2009 6381 9043 Jun 14, 2009 02:57PM