What is Elie Wiesel's legacy?

Elie Wiesel filled many roles in his life. Yet, throughout his life, he considered himself first and foremost to be a writer of human experience. In his memory, Haaretz turned to several noted Jewish authors in Israel and abroad, and asked them: How has his writing affected you? read more

The Legacy of Elie Wiesel contains 6 million voices and 6 million legacies. Wiesel’s voice will forever burn in the book stacks of every book store world wide for as long as there are humans populating this planet. The call of Wiesel was to hold true to the memory of that which was unspeakable. read more

Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning author who told the story of his Holocaust internment in his autobiographical novel"Night," died July 2, 2016. He was 87. Born Sept. 30, 1928, to a Jewish family in Transylvania's Carpathian Mountains, Wiesel was just a boy when World War II began. read more

The text concluded with the signature of its author, Elie Wiesel, the man who would be eulogized by fellow Nobel Prize-winner Barack Obama as “one of the great moral voices of our time.” With Wiesel’s death, the elites who relied on him for moral cover leapt at the opportunity to claim his legacy. read more