Elie Wiesel: Reading from His Works
Click below to hear Elie Wiesel read directly from his powerful memoir, Night.
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I was going to have to open the gates of memory, to break the silence while safeguarding it.
Opening the Gates of Memory - All Rivers Run to the Sea
Writings/Speeches by EW about Night
We May Use Words to Break the Prison: Elie Wiesel on Writing Night, Facing History, 1991
Resources for Studying
The 92NY Wiesel Living Archive as a Companion to Night
Extraordinary book that Night is, it does not contain all of what Elie Wiesel experienced during the war. Nor does it contain all of what he has recounted about that experience. The 92NY lectures expand what we can know about Professor Wiesel’s wartime ordeal—and they do that by means of his personal recollections.
Drawing on the Yiddish Version of Night
In this regard, it is important to recall that Night was adapted from Professor Wiesel’s original Yiddish-language memoir, And the World was Silent. In the 92NY lectures, he shares with us some passages from the earlier memoir that do not appear in Night. Sometimes he comments on them, at other times he simply reads the passage in English translation. In either case, these passages and comments give us a broader view of important aspects of Night.
In his lecture, “Darkness” (1999), Professor Wiesel reads some moving passages from the Yiddish version about Moshe the Beadle and about the circumstances of his father’s death—and shares poignant reflections on both
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.
Elie Wiesel
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