{"product_id":"a-jew-today-isbn-9780394740577","title":"A Jew Today","description":"\u003cb\u003eA powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, letters, and diary entries that weave together all the periods of the author's life from his childhood in Transylvania to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Paris, and New York. • \"One of the great writers of our generation addresses himself to the question of what it means to be a Jew.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElie Wiesel, acclaimed as one of the most gifted and sensitive writers of our time, probes, from the particular point of view of his Jewishness, such central moral and political issues as Zionism and the Middle East conflict, Solzhenitsyn and Soviet anti-Semitism, the obligations of American Jews toward Israel, the Holocaust and its cheapening in the media.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Rich in autobiographical, philosophical, moral and historical implications.\"\u003cb\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Rich in autobiographical, philosophical, moral and historical implications...a jew today reveals a matchless writer in complete control of his power:\" -- Chicago Tribune\u003cb\u003eElie Wiesel\u003c\/b\u003e was the author of more than 50 books, both fiction and nonfiction. He was a recipient of the United States Congressional Gold Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the French Legion of Honor’s Grand Croix, an honorary knighthood of the British Empire and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University from 1976 until his death in 2016. Wiesel was the author of \u003ci\u003eNight, A Mad Desire to dance, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Sondberg Case. \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Schocken","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303451119845,"sku":"NP9780394740577","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780394740577.jpg?v=1767720547","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-jew-today-isbn-9780394740577","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}