Elie Wiesel Zitate

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Geschichten gegen die Melancholie - Die Weisheit der chassidischen Meister. Freiburg, 1994. Übersetzer: Hanns Bücker. ISBN 3-451-04296-7
Englisch: "Every person is the center of creation — every person is called upon to justify creation." - Somewhere a Master - Further Hasidic Portraits and Legends. Simon & Schuster 1984. p. 190

Adam oder das Geheimnis des Anfangs. Übersetzer: Hanns Bücker. Freiburg im Breisgau, 1980. S. 211. ISBN 3-451-18952-6
Englisch: "There were those who claimed that Job did exist but that his sufferings are sheer literary invention. Then there where those who declared that while Job never existed, he undeniably did suffer." -Messengers of God - Biblical Portraits and Legends. Summit Books 1985. p. p. 215

The New York Times October 15, 1986, MAN IN THE NEWS; WITNESS TO EVIL: ELIEZER WEISEL, By JOSEPH BERGER http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/15/world/man-in-the-news-witness-to-evil-eliezer-weisel.html

Quelle: A Beggar in Jerusalem

Quelle: Day

Quelle: Night

Quelle: The Judges

Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)

That night, the soup tasted of corpses.
Night (1960)

Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)

Night (1960)

Night (1960)

Night (1960)

Night (1960)

Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)

It's a joke.
In a 1978 interview with John S. Friedman, published in The Paris Review 26 (Spring 1984); and in Elie Wiesel : Conversations (2002) edited by Robert Franciosi, p. 86

Night (1960)

As quoted in Spirituality and Liberation : Overcoming the Great Fallacy (1988) by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136

Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)

A statement of 1968, as quoted in "How And Why I Write: An Interview with Elie Wiesel" by Heidi Anne Walker, in Journal of Education, Vol. 162 (1980), p. 57
Variants:
Some words are deeds.
Souls on Fire : Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters (1982)
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
As quoted in "Nobelists, Auschwitz, and Survival" by Robert McAfee Brown, in Christianity and Crisis, Vol. 48 (7 March 1988), p. 58

Comments regarding US President Ronald Reagan's proposed visit to a Bitburg cemetery with then German President Helmut Kohl, on receiving the Congressional Gold Medal from Reagan (4/1/1985).

As quoted in "Is World Peace on the Horizon?", in The Watchtower (15 April 1991)

"“Why Are We Here?”, in The Watchtower (2006) http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2006768?q=Elie+Wiesel&p=par

Night (1960)

Nobel acceptance speech (1986)

Night (1960)

Night (1960)

Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)

Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)