Wiesel, Elie

Contemporary writers Albert Camus, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Elie Wiesel, and Sylvie Germain transpose the problem confronting the biblical Job in a century of total wars and genocides. Broadly influenced by a range of (a)theological perspectives, these authors grapple with existen…

This dissertation explores the poetics of loss in the autobiographical writing of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Born in 1928, Wiesel spent his early childhood in the shtetl of Sighet, situated in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania. In 1944…

As a public intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate, Elie Wiesel has stressed the importance of Holocaust remembrance and solidarity with those who suffer oppression today. While Wiesel's work has been largely ignored by secular scholars in the social sciences, Jewish and Christia…

The Holocaust of Nazi Germany raises questions that threaten to undermine current assumptions about the foundations of the Humanities, the Social Sciences, Philosophy and Theology. The academic community and other contemporary institutions fail to appreciate the significance of …