From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences
"One of the great writers of our generation" (The New Republic) weaves together memories of his life before the Holocaust and his great struggle to find meaning afterwards. Included are Wiesel's landmark speeches, among them his powerful testimony at the trial of Klaus Barbie and his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.\ \ "One of the great writers of our generation" (The New Republic) weaves together memories of his life before the Holocaust and his great...
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"One of the great writers of our generation" (The New Republic) weaves together memories of his life before the Holocaust and his great struggle to find meaning afterwards. Included are Wiesel's landmark speeches, among them his powerful testimony at the trial of Klaus Barbie and his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Publishers Weekly In these moving essays and speeches, Wiesel swings between outbursts of eloquence and the quiet, insightful conversations one might share with an old friend. His searing account of a trip to Auschwitz, Treblinka and Birkenau, many years after the war, encapsulates the enormity of the Holocaust. In another essay he castigates ``revisionist'' scholars who would explain away Hitler's crimes by lumping them with Stalin's. Included are his plea to former president Reagan not to visit Bitburg cemetery, his testimony at the trial of Nazi murderer Klaus Barbie and his 1986 Nobel lecture in Oslo, a dark meditation on the fanaticism, racism and political repression rampant in the world. On a more personal note, Wiesel revisits the Transylvanian town where he grew up, poignantly recalling his simple, unquestioning boyhood faith. Other pieces deal with friendship, Jewish rituals, Hitler's perversion of language, and the modern predicament--``knowledge has replaced love, machines have killed imagination.'' (Aug.)
Why I Write To Believe or Not to Believe Inside a Library The Stranger in the Bible A Celebration of Friendship Peretz Markish Dialogues Pilgrimage to the Kingdom of Night Sighet Again Kaddish in Cambodia Making the Ghosts Speak Passover Meeting Again Trivializing Memory Bitburg Testimony at the Barbie Trial When Memory Brings People Together More Dialogues What Really Makes Us Free?Are We Afraid of Peace?The Nobel Address The Nobel Lecture
\ Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly\ In these moving essays and speeches, Wiesel swings between outbursts of eloquence and the quiet, insightful conversations one might share with an old friend. His searing account of a trip to Auschwitz, Treblinka and Birkenau, many years after the war, encapsulates the enormity of the Holocaust. In another essay he castigates ``revisionist'' scholars who would explain away Hitler's crimes by lumping them with Stalin's. Included are his plea to former president Reagan not to visit Bitburg cemetery, his testimony at the trial of Nazi murderer Klaus Barbie and his 1986 Nobel lecture in Oslo, a dark meditation on the fanaticism, racism and political repression rampant in the world. On a more personal note, Wiesel revisits the Transylvanian town where he grew up, poignantly recalling his simple, unquestioning boyhood faith. Other pieces deal with friendship, Jewish rituals, Hitler's perversion of language, and the modern predicament--``knowledge has replaced love, machines have killed imagination.'' (Aug.)\ \ \ \ \ School Library JournalYA-- Several essays, including Wiesel's Nobel lecture and address, appear here for the first time. Jews dying in the Holocaust made one plea to survivors: Remember! These reminiscences join Wiesel's body of writing in carrying out that imperative. The book is an essential purchase for YA collections, not only for Holocaust studies but also for the majestic literary power of this major author.--Judy Sokoll, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\ \ \ BooknewsA collection of Wiesel's personal essays and landmark speeches, first published by Summit Books in 1990. No bibliography or index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
