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Complete order of Elie Wiesel books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
- Night
- Dawn
- Day
- Open Heart
- The Testament
- The Jews of Silence
- The Fifth Son
- The Forgotten
- Trial of God
- A Beggar in Jerusalem
Night is without a doubt Wiesel’s best-known novel. It follows Eliezer, a Jewish teenager, from Transylvania who is a stand-in for Elie Wiesel himself. The novel tracks his experiences through Auschwitz and Buchenwald and his religious transformation. Wiesel writes about the death of God and his horrific experiences in the camps. He feels helpless,...
Dawn is the second novel in the Night trilogy. It’s a work of fiction, one that focuses on Elisha, another Holocaust survivor. It follows Elisha after the war as he moves to Palestine and joins a paramilitary group seeking to remove the British from the area. He struggles with the choices he has to make while in the Movement, specifically the choic...
Day is the final novel in the Night trilogy. It follows a Holocaust survivor who is hit by a taxi in New York City. He spends most of the book recovering from his injuries and trying to come to terms with what happened to him during the Second World War. The novel was published in 1962 and for a time printed as The Accident in English. Wiesel explo...
Open Heart is a memoir of Wiesel’s life up to the age of eighty-two. He speaks on his contemporary worries, emergency heart surgery, and his coming death, as well as looking back on his life, his children, and grandchildren. There are moments of sorrow and hope in the novel that is similar to the tone Wiesel took in his Night trilogy.
The Testament describes the execution of Jewish writers in Russia in August of 1952 at the hands of Stalin. The novel blends real-life events and fiction as Wiesel crafts a story for one writer, Paltiel Kossover who writes a testament. Kossover’s son, Grisha, reads the record of his father’s life and starts to explore his father’s legacy, his choic...
The Jews of Silence is a non-fiction book based on Wiesel’s personal travels through the Soviet Union in 1965 in which he investigated the conditions of Soviet Jews. The book brought to light the continued persecution of Jewish men, women, and children who were mistreated and refused the right to emigrate. Wiesel traveled through five cities during...
The Fifth Son is a thematic continuation of The Testament, picked back up again in The Forgottenin 1992. The novel won the Grand Prize in Literature in Paris, France. The novel follows a father and son, the former who has never been able to speak about his experiences in the Holocaust and the latter who wants to learn more about his father’s past. ...
The novel was published in French in 1992 and focuses on two men, Elhanan Rosenbaum and his son, Malkiel. The former is losing his memory and spends the novel telling his son the story of his past. It depicts his attempts to come to terms with his past and remember the good and the bad. He shares regrets, memories of hope, and joy. After hearing hi...
“Trial of God” was written in 1979 and is one of Wiesel’s few plays. The play is set in a Ukrainian village in 1694 in which the survivors of a Cossack pogrom, or ethnic cleansing, decide to stage a mock trial in which they challenge God. They put God on trial, bringing to light religious doubts that plague Wiesel throughout his own life. Wiesel no...
A Beggar in Jerusalem is another one of Wiesel’s many moving novels. It takes place after the Six-Day War, also known as the June War, and the Third Arab-Israeli War. It was fought in June of 1967 by Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. A Holocaust survivor visits the reunited city of Jerusalem and he’s forced to confront his past. The narrator, David...
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- “Night” (1960) Arguably the most influential book on the Holocaust, “Night” brought the atrocities faced by Jews in the concentration camps to the forefront of American consciousness.
- “Dawn” and “Day” (1961, 1962) Along with “Night,” these two works form a trilogy that deals with the Holocaust and its aftereffects. Although “Night” has been variously described as a memoir, a novel and a “testimony” (by Wiesel himself), these two books are decidedly fictional.
- “The Jews of Silence” (1967) Advertisement. In 1965, Wiesel was sent to the Soviet Union by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. His observations on the plight of Jews there — who suffered from anti-Semitic discrimination and were forbidden to publicly practice their religion — became the catalyst for an activist and political movement in the West that eventually helped thousands migrate to Israel and other countries in the 1980s.
- “A Beggar in Jerusalem” (1970) Wiesel turned his imagination to the Six-Day War in this novel originally written in French, which won France’s prestigious Prix Medicis award.
Eliezer "Elli" Meyer co-stars as Rabbi Elli in "The Emerald City". He has also appeared in the films Oy Vey! (2007), The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009), Loving Leah (2009), and Here and There (2009)
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He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. In his political activities Wiesel became a regular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust and remained a strong defender of human rights during his lifetime.
