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...BEGGAR IN JERUSALEM by Elie Wiesel, translated from the French by Lily Edelman and the author. 21 1 pages. Random House...
When 6,000,000 died, Elie Wiesel survived. The implications of that selection have haunted him ever since, and lent somber substance to his writing (seven books, one play). Wiesel was at work in Manhattan on his eighth book when the Six-Day Arab-Israeli War broke out in 1967. Like thousands of Jews all over the world, he was unable to resist some sort of involvement. "I had to put everything aside," he remembers, and "I went to Jerusalem." This uniquely complete novel is the result of Wiesel's pilgrimage. It undertakes nothing less than the telling...
...Sciences refuse to send representatives to the committee set up by President Pusey to handle future emergencies. The composition and origin of this committee make it unlikely that it will be responsive to the entire University community. Zach W. Hall John Nicholls Mario Capecchi Dennis Gould Harold Amos Torsten Wiesel Jonathan Beckwith Michael A. Bratt Luigi Gorini Edwin J. Furshpan David D. Potter
...TOWN BEYOND THE WALL by Elie Wiesel. 179 pages. Atheneum...
...many Jews go unresisting, even unknowing, to the extermination camps? Why were so many observers apathetic? The questions refuse to go away. Now Elie Wiesel, 36, survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, suggests the poet's answers with a strange, lovely novel, drenched with horror, God-besotted and all-but-autobiographical. The hero, Michael, secretly returns to his native Hungarian town, is arrested by the Communist police and interrogated. To keep silent, Michael forces himself to relive his past; through his memories, people and episodes are mortised together to form a convincing mosaic portrait of East European Jewry-gripped...