The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry

Elie Wiesel

1966

In your first confrontation with the Jews of Russia you are forced to abandon whatever intellectual baggage you may have brought with you. Logic, you suddenly realize, will not help you here. You have your logic, they have theirs, and the distance between the two cannot be bridged by words. The more you see of them the surer you become that…

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Elie Wiesel

1928–2016
Elie Wiesel was born in Romania and moved to the United States in 1956. Wiesel’s most famous work, Night, describes his experiences as an inmate of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Wiesel taught at Boston University and was active in establishing the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He was an advocate for Jewish causes and a voice for the victims of oppression. In 1986, Wiesel received the Nobel Peace Prize.

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