"Elie Wiesel, a pious Hungarian boy whose life had been circumscribed by Jewish faith until his arrest, discovered Western literature in Paris after the war and wrote his memoir under its formative influence ten years later, he began his literary odyssey as a Yiddish and Hebrew writer but then turned his first book into French and wrote thereafter in his adopted language, largely about his native Yiddish and Hebrew culture."
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Ruth Wisse The Modern Jewish Canon (2000)
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Elie Wiesel
1928 – 2016
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Friedensnobelpreisträger
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