From the kingdom of memory : reminiscences /

Wiesel, Elie, 1928-,

From the kingdom of memory : reminiscences / [print] Elie Wiesel. - New York : Summit Books, (c)1990. - 250 pages ; 22 cm.

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.

A collection of speeches and personal essays by the humanitarian who won the Nobel Peace Prize.



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Wiesel, Elie, 1928-


Peace.
Human rights.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
Jewish meditations.

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