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Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)

political activist, Judaic scholar, autobiographer, translator, journalist, humanist, philosopher, playwright

  • Faculty of Arts of Paris

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La Nuit
La Nuit / L'Aube / Le Jour
King Solomon and his magic ring
Night with Related Readings
Célébration biblique
Sages and Dreamers
Wise Men and Their Tales
Célébration hassidique
From the kingdom of memory
Et la mer n'est pas remplie
Tous les fleuves vont à la mer
Rashi
Juif aujourd'hui
Five Biblical portraits
Juifs du silence
Tikvah
Four Hasidic masters and their struggle against melancholy
Somewhere a Master
Contre la meĢlancolie
From the kingdom of memory
A Jew today
CeĢleĢbrations
All rivers run to the sea
Paroles d'eĢtranger
Memoir in Two Voices
Night with Related Readings
Mémoires
Open Heart
Célébration talmudique. Portraits et légendes
Signes d'exode
CeĢleĢbration propheĢtique
Un Juif aujourd'hui
Mtshan Mo
Rescuing the Children
Open Heart
Five Biblical Portraits
Five Biblical Portraits
After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring
Yehude ha-demamah
King of Children
Élie Wiesel en hommage
Natten
Nach'isÅ­ wa Yudaein
Elie Wiesel 1928-2016
Đêm =
Un judio, hoy
Coeur ouvert
--și marea nu se umple
Paměti 2
Nait'Å­
Rashi
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
Prentice Hall Literature--Florida--Language and Literacy
Le Cinquième fils
Words of Ages
The Accident
A journey of faith
Conversations with Elie Wiesel
Portes de la forêt
Crépuscule, au loin
Mal et l'exil
Prentice Hall Literature -- Grade Ten
Juges
Legends of Our Time
Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Mendiant de Jérusalem
The Holocaust in Romania
Chant des morts
After the darkness
Serment de Kolvillàg
Dawn
The time of the uprooted
The six days of destruction
Against silence
Le creĢpuscule, au loin
Day
Désir fou de danser
Un di Velt Hot Geshvign
Ville de la chance
Procès de Shamgorod tel qu'il se déroula le 25 février 1649
Entre deux soleils
Beggar in Jerusalem
Oublié
Passover Haggadah
Un di Velt Hot Geshvign
Hostage
A Mad Desire to Dance
Dimensions of the Holocaust : lectures at Northwestern University / Elie Wiesel ... [et al.] ; annotated by Elliot Lefkovitz
Telling the tale
Le serment de KolvillaĢ€g
Ethics and memory =
Elie Wiesel
The Oath
L' aube
Les juifs du silence
Les portes de la foreĢ‚t
The judges
Memoirs
Un di Velt Hot Geshvign
The Sonderberg case
The Golem
The testament
Le Golem
In dialogue and dilemma with Elie Wiesel
Le Mendiant de Jérusalem
The Forgotten
Entretiens avec Elie Wiesel, 1984-2000
La noche, el alba, el día
Un desir fou de danser
Le Testament Dun Poete Juif
L' oublieĢ
La ville de la chance
Vremi Ła neprikai Łannykh
A journey of faith based on and expanded from the WNBC-TV broadcast
Die Richter
The Oath
Le Temps des déracinés
Carry forward one page of memory
Le Chant des morts
In dialogue and dilemma with Elie Wiesel
The Sonderberg case
IASI Pogrom, June-July 1941
Night
Telling the Tale
A mad desire to dance
Testament, The
Le proceĢ€s de Shamgorod tel qu'il se deĢroula le 25 feĢvrier 1649
Les juges
Le mal et l'exil
Un désir fou de danser
Silences et mémoire d'hommes
The Sonderberg case
Dimensions of the Holocaust
Un di į¹æelt hoį¹­ geshį¹æign
L'oublie
Noah oder die Verwandlung der Angst. Biblische Porträts
Night with Connected Readings
Ani maamin
Schweigen ist unmöglich
La Haggadah de Pâque
Alle Flüsse fließen ins Meer
D'où viens-tu ?
Die Nacht
Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle Against Melancholy (Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language and Literature ; V. 9)
La Haggadah de Pâque
One Generation After
Et où vas-tu ?
Filled with Fire and Light
Der Vergessene. Roman
The oath [by] Elie Wiesel
Souls On Fire-Portraits&Legends of Hasidic Masters
Town Beyond the Wall
Elie Wiesel at the National Press Club
Songes, énigmes et paraboles, suivi de "Le chant qui habite le chant"
Gesang der Toten
Le Golem raconté par Elie Wiesel
Le Jour
All Rivers Run to the Sea
Les portes de la fôret
Ethical Compass
God, Faith and Identity from the Ashes
The Tale of a Niggun
Twilight
The Fifth Son
Le Serment de Kolvillag
Medical and psychological effects of concentration camps on Holocaust survivors
Friendship - Bread for the Journey
Migrations et Errances
Gesang der Toten. Erinnerungen und Zeugnis
Light of Jerusalem
SleduiĶ”ushchee pokolenie
Der fünfte Sohn. Roman
Twentieth Century Novelists
Adam oder das Geheimnis des Anfangs. Legenden und Porträts
Jerusalem
...und das Meer wird nicht voll. Autobiographie 1969 - 1996
Le testament d'un poeĢ€te juif assassineĢ
Messengers of God (Works / Elie Wiesel)
Dawn
All rivers run to the sea
Inside a library ; and, The stranger in the Bible
Splinters
TRILOGÍA DE LA NOCHE
Le\Testament d'un Poete Juif Assassine
Un di Velt Hot Geshvign
Out of the Depths
El Olvidado
Chassidismus - ein Fest für das Leben. Legenden und Porträts
Geschichten gegen die Melancholie. Die Weisheit der chassidischen Meister
Testament
Jew Today (Elie Wiesel Collection Ser.)
Selected and Annotated Resource List of Materials on the Holocaust
Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle Against Melancholy
Durghatna
Le roi Salomon et sa bague magique
Alle rivieren stromen naar de zee
And the Sea Is Never (Signed)
Memoria a DOS Voces
Gates of the Forest
Efoh ha-Yehudim sheli?
Passover Haggadah
Dia
Zalmen ou la folie de Dieu
Day
Souls on Fire
Esperar a Pesar de Todo
Town Beyond the Wall
Open Heart
It Is Impossible to Remain Silent
Die Nacht zu begraben, Elischa
Gece
Twilight
Por Que Recordar?
Todos Los Torrentes Van a la Mar
[Hagadah shel Pesaįø„] =
Le cas Sonderberg
The judges
Dawn
Contra La Melancolia
Surgunler Cagi
Zalmen Madness of God
Elie Wiesel Reading from His Works
Le mendiant de Je rusalem
The dark side of peace? (Conversazione)
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Bluebird Book
All Rivers Run to the Sea
La locura de Dios
L' oublieĢ
Le cas Sonderberg
Twilight
Ma vigne à moi
Ethics and Memory / Ethik und Erinnerung
Le\Fantome de Canterville
Were We Our Brothers' Keepers?
Discours d'Oslo
Zalmen or Madns God
Al sorgere delle stelle
Le\Crepescule au Loin
La noche, el alba, el día
Celebrating Elie Wiesel
The gates of the forest
Zalmen, or the madness of God
Souls on Fire (Elie Wiesel Collection Ser.)
Ethical issues for today (Louis Nizer lecture on public policy)
The Jew
Elie Wiesel
Oath (Elie Wiesel Collection Ser.)
Retratos Y Leyendas Jasidicas
Le Mendiant de JeĢrusalem
Et où vas-tu ?
Safak Vakti
The testament
Les Juifs du silence, témoignage
Jewish Folklore
Twilight
Ethics and Memory; Ethik und Erinnerung
Le Cinquieme Fils
Het proces-Sonderberg
Images from the Bible
Jews of Silence (Elie Wiesel Collection Ser.)
Hanukkah Lights
One Generation After (Elie Wiesel Collection Ser.)
Against despair
Hostage
Elie Wiesel Shelf Talker
Messengers of God
Mendicante Di Gerusalemme
Le\Cinquieme Fils
Zavet
Messengers of God
Zalman, Or, the Madness of God (Works/Elie Wiesel)
עי×Ø ×”×ž×–×œ
Two images, one destiny
Las puertas del bosque
Will Soviet Jewry survive?
A meditation on hope
Zalmen or the madness of God
Dimensions of the Holocaust
Az eskü
Dimensions of the holocaust
Hostage
The gates of the forest
The accident
Holocausto
Dimensions of the Holocaus
Elie Wiesel reading from his works
Dawn
A beggar in Jerusalem
The gates of the forest
ShaŹ»are ha-yaŹ»ar
The accident
Parashat Zonderberg
Dawn
Yahadut ha-demamah
Mémoire à deux voix
Elias
The Sonderberg case
Think higher
Farį¹­og
The gates of the forest
Die Nacht zu begraben, Elischa
El quinto hijo
Reimagined
Dimensions of the Holocaust
Otage
Ź»Ir ha-mazal
2nd Annual Gershon Jacobson Memorial Lecture
El mendigo de Jerusalem
Vse txu cõi chret
Legends of our time
Fortvivl ikke
Noch'. Rassvet. NeschastnyÄ­ sluchaÄ­
La locura de Dios
El mendigo de Jerusalem
The Power of forgiveness
Hagadah shel Pesaįø„ =
Tsaį¹æaŹ¾ato shel meshorer
DenŹ¹
Żebrak z Jerozolimy
ha-Neshamah ha-įø¤asidit
Ź»Im shaįø„ar (trilogyah)
Against despair
Linneas Windowsill Garden
Les portes de la forêt
Ani maŹ¼amin
Der Schwur von Kolvillág
Zaveshchanie ubitogo evreĭskogo poėta
Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin (born 1947)

zoologist, academic, activist, biologist

  • Franklin Pierce University, Arizona State University

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Thinking in Pictures
Emergence
Emergence, labeled autistic
The Autistic Brain
Animals make us human
Animals in translation
Way I See It
Developing talents
The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships
Making Animals Happy How To Create The Best Life For Pets And Other Animals
Livestock Handling and Transport
Improving animal welfare
Survey of stunning and handling in federally inspected beef, veal, pork, and sheep slaughter plants
Interpretar a Los Animales
Humane Livestock Handling
Good management practices for animal handling and stunning
Pensar Con Imagenes
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Recommended animal handling guidelines for meat packers
Beef cattle handling and facilities design
Ma vie d'autiste
Atravesando Las Puertas Del Autismo
Ware jiheishō ni umarete
The ADHD-Autism Connection
Jiheishō no sainō kaihatsu
Ron Kovic
Ron Kovic (born 1946)

autobiographer, peace activist, political activist, veteran

  • Hofstra University

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Born on the Fourth of July
Hurricane street
Around the world in eight days
A Dangerous Country
Gioconda Belli
Gioconda Belli (born 1948)

poet, journalist, diarist, activist

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El paiĢs bajo mi piel
The Country Under My Skin
El autor y su obra
Mujer habitada
El ojo de la mujer
Infinito en la palma de la mano
The Scroll of Seduction
El Pergamino de la Seduccion
The scroll of seduction
El infinito en la palma de la mano
La mujer habitada
From Eve's Rib
The Butterfly Workshop
Waslala
El intenso calor de la luna
Die Verteidigung des Glücks. Erinnerungen an Liebe und Krieg
The Inhabited Women
Sofía de los presagios
El pergamino de la seduccioĢn
Escándalo de miel
Apogeo
Auf das Leben und die Liebe. Eine kleine Poesie des Glücks zu zweit
From Eve's Rib/Spanish-English
El país de las mujeres
El Pergamino De La Seduccion (Historica)
El Pais de las Mujeres La Otra Orilla
Mi iĢntima multitud
El país bajo mi piel
1492-1992, la interminable conquista
El infinito en la palma de la mano
L'Atelier des papillons
El taller de las mariposas
Wenn du mich lieben willst
Zauber gegen die Kälte. Erotische Gedichte. Spanisch - Deutsch
El taller de las mariposas
Sofía de los presagios
In der Farbe des Morgens. Gedichte. ( dtv drei kontinente)
EĢrase una vez una mujer--
El Taller De Las Mariposas/ the Butterfly Workshop
Die Werkstatt der Schmetterlinge. Cassette
Fuego soy
Nicaragua in reconstruction & at war
Sofia de los presagios
Antología personal
El pais bajo mi piel
El intenso calor de la luna
La mujer habitada
Nicaragua Water Fire
Truenos y arco iris
Florilèges
Esto es amor
El país de las mujeres
Poesía reunida
Kroniek van liefde en oorlog
Amor insurrecto
El pergamino de la seducción
Il paese sotto la pelle
El ojo de la mujer
Truenos y arco iris
En la avanzada juventud
El intenso calor de la luna
Oneindigheid in een handpalm
Η γυναĪÆκα φωλιĪ¬
La donna abitata
Linea de fuego
Fuego soy, apartado y espada puesta lejos
Apogeo
De la costilla de Eva
De verdediging van de liefde
Sofía de los presagios
De bewoonde vrouw
LiĢnea de fuego
Shane Claiborne
Shane Claiborne (born 1975)

activist

  • Eastern University

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The Irresistible Revolution
Jesus for President
Becoming the answer to our prayers
Iraq Journal 2003
Red letter revolution
Follow me to freedom
Soul Graffiti Making A Life In The Way Of Jesus
Executing grace
Jesus for President Pack
Common prayer
Red letter revolution
Nh. Dini
Nh. Dini (1936-2018)

women's rights activist

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Amir Hamzah, pangeran dari seberang
Dari Ngalian ke Sendowo
Tirai Menurun
Pada Sebuah Kapal
Jalan Bandungan
Keberangkatan
Monumen
Tanah baru, tanah air kedua
La Barka
Departures
Dari Parangakik ke Kampuchea
Jepun negerinya Hiroko
Kemayoran
Istri konsul
La Grande Borne
Langit dan bumi sahabat kami
Segi dan garis
Sebuah lorong di kotaku
Dari Rue Saint Simon ke Jalan Lembang
Orang-orang Tran
Argenteuil
Pencakar langit
Sekayu
Pertemuan dua hati
Sebuah lorong di kotaku
Tuileries
Dua dunia
Padang ilalang di belakang rumah
Namaku Hiroko
Pondok baca kembali ke Semarang
Sekayu
Hati jang damai
Namaku Hiroko
Janda muda
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011)

philanthropist, autobiographer, stage actor, television actor, film actor, film producer, art collector, HIV/AIDS activist, actor

  • Byron House School

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Elizabeth takes off
Elizabeth Takes Off
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor's Nibbles and me
Nibbles and me
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth dit tout
The Last Time I Saw Paris
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Giant (1956)
Elizabeth Taylor's Nibbles and Me
Father's Little Dividend
Elizabeth Taylor's Nibbles and Me
Hollywood Classics: The Golden Age of the Silverscreen: (Collector Edition)
The last time I saw Paris
Elizabeth Taylor
World enough and time
Susan Faludi
Susan Faludi (born 1959)

women's rights activist, journalist, feminist

  • Harvard University

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In the darkroom
In the Darkroom
In the Darkroom
In the Darkroom
Backlash
Stiffed
The Terror Dream
The Terror Dream
En el cuarto oscuro
Backlash
Roots of Modern Male Rage
Visitors
A la cambra fosca
Backlash
La pesadilla terrorista
Reacción
A la cambra fosca
Backlash. The Undeclared War Against Women.
Backlash 24 Copy Dumpbin
Blacklash
La pesadilla terrorista
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women
A la cambra fosca
Männer - das betrogene Geschlecht
Blame it on feminism
BACKLASH THE UNDECLARED WAR AGAINST WOMEN
Reaccion
Carol Gilligan