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A Jew Today

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I was touched by this book. I didn't know a book could change your life. After all, it's only words. And we live in an era ruled by the power of images.But Elie Wiesel, despite all suffering and humiliation that he faced during his life, brings us joy and hope . Joy and hope is his answer to the ashes of the holocaust. If the jews are the chosen people, then Elie Wiese is my vote for role model.

This volume contains some of Wiesel's most important essays. In one he explains how his meetings with Francois Mauriac led to his writing of his masterpiece, one of the important works of the twentieth- century,"Night."In another he chides Solzhenitsyn for his failure to include the special sufferings of the Jews in his vast account of Soviet prison- world, the Gulag. In yet another he reflects on the aftermath of the war in Biafra. In still another he parses for us the meaning of "Jews of Silence' and how it was intended not for the Russian Jews captive in the Soviet Union but for those who did not speak out in their behalf. In still another he chides the U.N. for its immoral 'Zionism is Racism' motion. In another he writes of his saintly grandfather murdered by the Nazis.
In many essays he stresses the value of unity for the Jewish people. In many he defends Israel against its accusers. In all his awareness of the worlds and people lost in the Shoah are present.
All in all Wiesel reveals himself here as a great voice for the Jewish people, and humanity as a whole.

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