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Elie Wiesel

1928 - 2016

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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel ( EL-ee vee-ZEL or EE-ly VEE-səl; Yiddish: אליעזר "אלי" װיזל, romanized: Eliezer "Eli" Vizl; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. 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. He also advocated for many other causes like the state of Israel and against Hamas and victims of oppression including Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, the apartheid in South Africa, the Bosnian genocide, Sudan, the Kurds and the Armenian genocide, Argentina's Desaparecidos or Nicaragua's Miskito people.He was a professor of the humanities at Boston University, which created the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies in his honor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elie Wiesel has received more than 5,736,294 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Elie Wiesel is the 519th most popular writer (down from 480th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Romania (down from 28th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Romanian Writer.

Elie Wiesel is most famous for his book Night, which is about his experience in the Holocaust.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 79

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Portes de la forêt
1966
Juifs du silence
1966
La Nuit
History / General
"Night" -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as "The Diary Of Anne Frank," "Night" awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it the unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.<p> "To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a record." -- Alfred Kazin<p> "Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art." -- Curt Leviant, "Saturday Review"
19554 / 5
La Nuit / L'Aube / Le Jour
1972
Célébration biblique
History
Originally published: New York: Random House, Ã1976.
19753 / 5
Célébration hassidique
1972

Page views of Elie Wiesels by language

Over the past year Elie Wiesel has had the most page views in the with 552,402 views, followed by French (56,927), and Italian (39,097). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Min Nan (26,800.00%), Interlingua (416.85%), and Hungarian (81.90%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elie Wiesel ranks 519 out of 7,302. Before him are Gabriele Amorth, Isaac Babel, Aulus Gellius, Tom Clancy, Alvin Toffler, and Henry IV of Castile. After him are Marie-Antoine Carême, Tennessee Williams, Premchand, Jostein Gaarder, Harold Pinter, and Jean Paul.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Elie Wiesel ranks 30. Before him are Jean-Marie Le Pen, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Shirley Temple, James Coburn, Kim Yong-nam, and Alvin Toffler. After him are Martin Cooper, Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Martin Landau, Alberto Korda, Domenico Modugno, and Peyo. Among people deceased in 2016, Elie Wiesel ranks 29. Before him are Abbas Kiarostami, Jerome Bruner, Nancy Reagan, Bernardo Provenzano, Gabriele Amorth, and Alvin Toffler. After him are Carrie Fisher, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Pierre Boulez, Andrzej Żuławski, Walter Scheel, and Gene Wilder.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Elie Wiesel ranks 31 out of 844. Before him are Vlad II Dracul (1395), György Ligeti (1923), Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1901), Klaus Iohannis (1959), Nadia Comăneci (1961), and Gheorghe Hagi (1965). After him are Michael the Brave (1558), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Álmos (820), George Enescu (1881), Sergiu Celibidache (1912), and Gheorghe Zamfir (1941).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Elie Wiesel ranks 5. Before him are Eugène Ionesco (1909), Tristan Tzara (1896), Paul Celan (1920), and Herta Müller (1953). After him are Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Károly Kerényi (1897), and Ion Luca Caragiale (1852).

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