Joe Berger
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30-year veteran @NYTimes. Author of Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence,Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim,Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After Holocaust
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Audiobooks is offering a thrifty way to hear the recorded version of my biography of Elie Wiesel. Alternatively Yale University Press recently published the paperback. % OFF Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence
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As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust with his searing memoir Night. How did this soft-spoken man from...
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60% OFF Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence https://t.co/cS8FPzRwxU Happy to say Yale U. Press is promoting an audiobook of my Elie Wiesel biography.
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As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust with his searing memoir Night. How did this soft-spoken man from...
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I'm pleased to let you know that my bio of Elie Wiesel was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in biography, ending up in some very admirable finalist company. (@jewishbook) https://t.co/o2aq8VDgae 73rd Biography finalists.jpg
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Marking 50 years of Ms. magazine with two of its founders at the Silurians Press Club, a riveting program that recalled an era we now might view with disbelief and the transformation of American culture that followed: https://t.co/STZJgFR90Q
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He walked every block of the Bronx and found traces of a vanished Jewish world
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A new guidebook, "The Bronx Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide," finds traces of the borough's Jewish past in nearly every neighborhood.
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"The Kubrick Stare" is one of director Stanley Kubrick's most recognizable directorial techniques. A method of shot composition where a character stares at the camera with a forward tilt, to convey to the audience that they are at the peak of their derangement
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A televised interview on my recently published Elie Wiesel bio, with sharp and perceptive questioning by Abigail Pogrebin. https://t.co/2fa28YgxuJ
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TLV1 in Israel just released a half-hour audio interview on my bio of Elie Wiesel for its podcast, the Tel Aviv Review. Here's the link: https://t.co/uE5qsxPYFB
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Joseph Berger discusses his book “Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence,” the first English-language biography of the iconic Jewish intellectual and Holocaust author
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Another good review--in the New York Journal of Books https://t.co/EETnGMB1SP
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I'm delighted that "Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence," received a warm review in the Wall Street Journal in the lead of their Books section. https://t.co/pcAKPq7Smv The review is a tribute to the eloquent person who who seared the Holocaust into the world's conscience.
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To keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, Elie Wiesel fought against what he identified as a deep unwillingness to speak clearly about the atrocity.
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The first review calls the biography of Elie Wiesel I “an indispensable touchstone.” In praise (and defense) of Elie Wiesel, who spoke with ‘the aura of a prophet’
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'Confronting the Silence' is Joseph Berger's indispensable biography of the Nobel laureate Wiesel, who personified resilience and recovery.
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Four Questions with Kayla Cottingham https://t.co/JiIISOp81a via @publisherswkly
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We spoke with Kayla Cottingham about her new YA horror novel, 'This Delicious Death,' and the social taboo of cannibalism
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Check out this article from @nytimes. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription.
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Witty and contrarian, he was the longtime editor and later publisher of The Nation and wrote an acclaimed book about the Hollywood blacklisting era.
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Ken Burns Explores America’s Inaction During the Holocaust
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“The U.S. and the Holocaust,” coming to PBS Sept. 18, examines the reasons behind the country’s inadequate response to Germany’s persecution of Jews.
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David Weiss Halivni, Controversial Talmudic Scholar, Dies at 94
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He was considered too radical by many Orthodox rabbis and too regressive by many Conservative Jewish leaders. But his work was widely praised.
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“Real Real Bad” - Hutchinson’s Eyewitness Testimony Reveals White House ... https://t.co/Ze0Qgd4e4y via @YouTube
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