Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new documentary 'Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire' explores the man behind the memoir 'Night'. Writer, director and producer Oren ...

A Boston University fraternity is challenging community members to increase their awareness on national and global tragedies using one of the most widely read books to come out of the Holocaust. To ...

American Masters will premiere Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire on Tuesday, January 27, at 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS. The documentary examines the life and legacy of Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize–winning ...

Middle school students in Newark grapple with Elie Wiesel’s harrowing Holocaust memoir. The short stand-alone film Night in Newark takes place in the 7th grade classroom of the extraordinary teacher ...

This article initially appeared in My Jewish Learning’s Shabbat newsletter Recharge. To sign up to receive Recharge each week in your inbox, click here. (JTA) — It was August 1966, the summer before ...

A federal judge in Iowa has blocked much of a state law forbidding school libraries from stocking books depicting “sex acts,” in part because he said it was keeping a classic Holocaust memoir off ...

Renowned in his field, he counted among his clients five Nobel laureates, including Elie Wiesel, and eight Pulitzer winners as well as the estates of Tennessee Williams and Aldous Huxley. By Joseph ...

NEW YORK -- Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic "Night" became a landmark testament to the Nazis' crimes and launched Wiesel's long career as one of the ...

Was a human rights advocate, speaking out about Bosnian ethnic cleansing, Cambodian refugees, and South African apartheid. Wiesel’s mother and youngest sister died at Auschwitz. His two older sisters ...

NEW YORK -- Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic "Night" became a landmark testament to the Nazis' crimes and launched Wiesel's long career as one of the ...