‘Elie Wiesel’ Review: Voice in the Wilderness

‘Suffering, in Jewish tradition, confers no privileges. It all depends on what one makes of that suffering.” So wrote Elie Wiesel in one of the most compelling of his nearly 50 books, “Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits & Legends” (1976). The ethic embodied in this passage mirrors Wiesel’s own…

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