Elisha has to do what he needs to with the help of his friends, he begins to wonder about what life could be like. At the age of being 18, being a fighter, and a Holocaust survivor, he has seen enough. But being an Israeli freedom fighter, he has no choice. My Review:Įlisha has just been ordered to kill a man. He was a founding board member of the New York Human Rights Foundation and remained active throughout his life. He had been described as “the most important Jew in America” by the Los Angeles Times. Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, at which time the Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a “messenger to mankind,” stating that through his struggle to come to terms with “his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler’s death camps”, as well as his “practical work in the cause of peace”, Wiesel had delivered a message “of peace, atonement and human dignity” to humanity. He publicly condemned the 1915 Armenian genocide and remained a strong defender of human rights during his lifetime. In his political activities, he also campaigned for victims of oppression in places like South Africa and Nicaragua and genocide in Sudan. He was involved with Jewish causes and helped establish the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Along with writing, he was a professor of the humanities at Boston University, which created the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies in his honor. He was the author of 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Dawnis an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings.Ībout the Author: Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. Caught between the manifold horrors of the past and the troubling dilemmas of the present, Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and ultimately God as he waits for the appointed hour and his act of assassination. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel’s ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative. And I am going to try and convince you to read this book with this spoiler free review.Įlisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. If you haven’t read any of his stuff, you need to get on it. I finally got the chance to read his second piece of work and I am so happy I could. My mom, being my mom, decided that she would go ahead and buy me the other two books he wrote. Last year for English, I had to read Elie Wiesel’s Night and I loved it.
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