Elie Wiesel

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1961
  • Latest Book:
    May 2013
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Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Dawn

    Elie Wiesel's Dawn is an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings. "The author . . . has built knowledge into artistic fiction." -- The New York Times Book Re...

  • The Town Beyond the Wall

    Michael -- a young man in his thirties, a concentration camp survivor -- makes the difficult trip behind the Iron Curtain to the town of his birth in Hungary. He returns to find and confront “the face in the window” -- the real and symbolic faces...

  • Legends of Our Time

    A collection of tales immortalizing the heroic deeds and visions of people Wiesel knew during and after World War II....

  • The Jews of Silence

    In the fall of 1965 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz sent a young journalist named Elie Wiesel to the Soviet Union to report on the lives of Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain. “I would approach Jews who had never been placed in the Soviet show wind...

  • The Oath

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    When a Christian boy disappears in a fictional Eastern European town in the 1920s, the local Jews are quickly accused of ritual murder. There is tension in the air and a pogrom threatens to erupt. Suddenly, an extraordinary man -- Moshe the dreamer, ...

  • A Beggar in Jerusalem

    When the Six-Day War began, Elie Wiesel rushed to Israel. "I went to Jerusalem because I had to go somewhere, I had to leave the present and bring it back to the past. You see, the man who came to Jerusalem then came as a beggar, a madman, not believ...

  • One Generation After

    Twenty years after he and his family were deported from Sighet to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel returned to his town in search of the watch -- a bar mitzvah gift -- he had buried in his backyard before they left....

  • Zalman; or, The Madness God

    On Yom Kippur eve in 1965, Elie Wiesel found himself in Russia, “in a synagogue crowded with people.  The air was stifling.  The cantor was chanting . . . Suddenly a mad thought crossed my mind: Something is about to happen; any moment no...

  • The Accident



  • Souls on Fire

    In Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters, Elie Wiesel re-enters, like an impassioned pilgrim, the universe of Hasidism.Souls on Fire is not a simple chronological history of Hasidism, nor is it a comprehensive book on its subject. R...

  • Night

    Night -- A terrifying account  of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young  Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of  his family...the death of his innocence...and the  death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as  persona...

  • The Testament

    On August 12, 1952, Russia's greatest Jewish writers were secretly executed by Stalin. In this remarkable blend of history and imagination, Paltiel Kossover meets the same fate but, unlike his real-life counterparts, he is permitted to leave a writte...

  • Somewhere a Master

    The compassion of Reb Moshe-Leib, the vision of the Seer of Lublin, the wisdom of Reb Pinhas, the warmth of the Ba’al Shem Tov, the humor of Reb Naphtali"to their followers these sages appeared as kings, judges, and prophets. They communicated jo...

  • The Fifth Son

    Reuven Tamiroff, a Holocaust survivor, has never been able to speak about his past to his son, a young man who yearns to understand his father’s silence. As campuses burn amidst the unrest of the Sixties and his own generation rebels, the son is dr...

  • Twilight

    Raphael Lipkin is a man obsessed. He hears voices. He talks to ghosts. He is spending the summer at the Mountain Clinic, a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York -- not as a patient, but as a visiting professional with a secret, personal quest.A pr...

  • The Forgotten

    Distinguished psychotherapist and survivor Elhanan Rosenbaum is losing his memory to an incurable disease. Never having spoken of the war years before, he resolves to tell his son about his past -- the heroic parts as well as the parts that fill him ...

  • The Gates of the Forest

    Gregor a teenaged boy, the lone survivor of his family is hiding from the Germans in the forest. He hides ina cave, where he meets a mysterious stranger who saves his life. He hides in the village, posing as a deaf-mute peasant boy. He hides among th...

  • The Judges

    From Elie Wiesel, a gripping novel of guilt, innocence, and the perilousness of judging both.A plane en route from New York to Tel Aviv is forced down by bad weather. A nearby house provides refuge for five of its passengers: Claudia, who has left he...

  • The Time of the Uprooted

    Gamaliel Friedman is only a child when his family flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 for the relative safety of Hungary. For him, it will be the beginning of a life of rootlessness, disguise, and longing. Five years later, in desperation, Gamaliel’s pare...



  • Day

    "Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." --The New York Times Book ReviewThe publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel's original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident and clearly establish...

  • The Night Trilogy

    Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1958, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel writes of their battle for survival and of his battle with God for ...

  • A Mad Desire to Dance

    Doriel, a European expatriate living in New York, suffers from a profound sense of desperation and loss. His mother, a member of the Resistance, survived World War II only to die in an accident, together with his father, soon after. Doriel was a chil...

  • The Sonderberg Case

    From the Nobel laureate and author of the masterly Night: a deeply felt, beautifully written novel of morality, guilt, and innocence. Despite personal success, Yedidyah--a theater critic in New York City, husband to a stage actress, father to two ...

  • Hostage

    From Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and author of Night, a charged, deeply moving novel about the legacy of the Holocaust in today’s troubled world and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg -- professional s...

  • Open Heart

  • The Trial of God

    Where is God when innocent human beings suffer? This drama lays bare the most vexing questions confronting the moral imagination. Set in a Ukranian village in the year 1649, this haunting play takes place in the aftermath of a pogrom. Only two Jew...

  • The Golem: The Story of a Legend

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    For Centuries, Jews have remembered the Golem, a creature of clay said to have been given life by the mystical incantations of the mysterious Maharal, Rabbi Yehuda Loew, leader of the Jewish community of 16-century Prague... In this beautiful book, E...

  • The New Country

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    An abridged version of the collection originally published in 1961, the forty-two stories here are written by some of the the most brilliant and poignant Jewish writers of the twentieth century, including Sholem Aleichem, Abraham Raisin, and Joseph O...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elie Wiesel has published 28 books.

Elie Wiesel does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Trial of God, was published in May 2013.

The first book by Elie Wiesel, Dawn, was published in June 1961.

No. Elie Wiesel does not write books in series.
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