The book received recommendations from Elie Wiesel who wrote in The New York Times Book Review that it was " one of the best ...

Naomi Seidman, professor of Jewish culture at the Graduate Theological Union, wrote a comparative analysis of the Yiddish and French texts for a 1996 article in Jewish Social Studies, concluding that Night transforms the Holocaust into a religious event, the abdication of God, with the witness both priest and prophet ; Wiesel himself said that Auschwitz was as important as Mount Sinai.

" Wiesel wrote in The New York Times Book Review that it was: " One of the best ...

Norman Finkelstein, former professor of political science at DePaul University, wrote in The Holocaust Industry: " Long after Kosiński was exposed as a consummate literary hoaxer, Wiesel continued to heap encomiums on his " remarkable body of work.

Seidman argues that there was not one Holocaust survivor in Night, but two — a Yiddish and a French — a view that Holocaust deniers have exploited to imply that Wiesel has not been truthful about some of the scenes.

For example, in the Yiddish, Wiesel writes that, after liberation, some of the male camp survivors run off to " fargvaldikn daytshe shikses " (" rape German shiksas "), whereas in the French, they " coucher avec les filles " (" sleep with girls ").

" But Naomi Seidman notes — as does Wiesel in All Rivers Run to the Sea — that Mark Turkov, Wiesel's publisher in Argentina, was given the Yiddish manuscript in 1954, one year before Wiesel's meeting with Mauriac.

Although Turkov said he would return the manuscript, Wiesel writes that he did not see it again, but later in Rivers, he explains that he " cut down the original manuscript from 862 pages to the 245 of the published Yiddish edition.

The edited version omits the celebrity's name — Elie Wiesel.

German Wiesel AWC | Wiesel, a related modern concept, seen here in the Ozelot anti-air version.

In Rivers, Wiesel writes that the first version of Night was written on a boat en route to Brazil in 1954, and that he handed the original 862-page manuscript to Turkov on the boat.

* Wiesel 1 MK20: fire support version with a Rheinmetall MK 20 Rh202 20 mm cannon

* Wiesel 1 MK25: 25 mm armed version

The Wiesel 2 is a stretched version of the Wiesel 1, with a fifth roadwheel.

File: Ozelot. jpg | Wiesel 2 in the Ozelot anti-air version of LeFlaSys

In 1960, Arthur Wang of Hill & Wang — who Wiesel writes " believed in literature as others believe in God "— agreed to pay a $ 100 pro-forma advance, and published a 116-page English edition in the United States in September that year as Night, translated by Stella Rodway of McGibbon & Kee.

It is an emotional presentation inviting meditation on the thought of Elie Wiesel: " Peace is not a gift from God to man, but a gift from man to himself ".

" However, many proponents of dystheistic ideas ( including Elie Wiesel and David Blumenthal ) do not offer those ideas in the spirit of hating God.

Wiesel's 1979 play The Trial of God is about a trial in which God is the defendant, and is reportedly based on events that Wiesel himself witnessed as a teenager in Auschwitz.

She told The Jewish Daily Forward that, in re-writing rather than simply translating Un di Velt Hot Geshvign, Wiesel had replaced an angry survivor who regards " testimony as a refutation of what the Nazis did to the Jews ," with one " haunted by death, whose primary complaint is directed against God, not the world, the Nazis.

Falsani is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People, a collection of 32 spiritual profiles of famous " culture shapers " including Bono of U2, Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, author Anne Rice, and professional basketball player Hakeem Olajuwon.

This trend has had limited uptake in Western forces with only Germany equipping their airmobile division with the similar Wiesel tankette two of which can be carried inside a Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter.

The 1990s saw the renaissance of a similar concept with the Wiesel of the German Bundeswehr being introduced to provide airborne troops with armoured reconnaissance capability, a function that had already been trialled with Soviet T-27 in World War II.

In July 2004, the Union released an addendum to the report in which they criticize the Bush administration and allege that reports on West Virginia strip mining had been improperly altered, and that " well-qualified " nominees for government posts, such as Nobel laureate Torsten Wiesel were rejected because of political differences.

When Wiesel's name was rejected, an official in Thompson's office told Keusch that Wiesel had " signed too many full-page letters in The New York Times critical of President Bush.

A landmark experiment by David H. Hubel and Torsten Wiesel ( 1963 ) showed that cats which had one eye sewn shut from birth to three months of age ( monocular deprivation ) only fully developed vision in the open eye.

Hubel and Wiesel had demonstrated that ocular dominance columns in the lowest neocortical visual area, V1, were largely immutable after the critical period in development.

The Walsh University Peace Pole has had visitors including Willy Brandt, Coretta Scott King, Mother Teresa, and Elie Wiesel who came to Walsh University to advocate for peace.

# It is a historically significant image of the ghetto Elie Wiesel lived in before he and his family and neighbors were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

A Wiesel equipped with a TOW deploys from a CH-53

During the visit Elie Wiesel, who together with Bertrand Herz was send to Little camp as 16-year old boys, said, " if these trees could talk.

Roger Wolcott Sperry ( August 20, 1913 – April 17, 1994 ) was a neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel laureate who, together with David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with split-brain research.

However, perhaps his greatest prize was his achievement in attaining the Nobel Prize in cooperation with David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel for Physiology or Medicine.

* Transcript of interview with Elie Wiesel

In September of the same year, he spoke to the UN Security Council with Nobel Prize-winner Elie Wiesel to ask the UN to find a solution to the conflict and to help the people of Darfur.

Each battalion of Jäger, Fallschirmjäger and Gebirgsjäger has a " heavy company " of Wiesel weapon-carriers equipped with 20 mm cannon, TOW launchers or 120 mm mortars.

Current collaborations include flautist Abbie de Quant ( since 1970 ), Duo 4 with pianist Meir Wiesel, the Tamar Piano Trio and ensembles with vocalists such as Bat-Sheva Zeisler and Shimrit Carmi.

Suchar stated he opposed tenure because Finkelstein's " personal and reputation demeaning attacks on Alan Dershowitz, Benny Morris, and the holocaust authors Eli Wiesel and Jerzy Kosinski " were inconsistent with DePaul's " Vincentian " values.

It sold 1, 046 copies over the next 18 months, at $ 3 a copy, but it attracted interest from reviewers, leading to television interviews with Wiesel and meetings with literary figures like Saul Bellow.

It was republished with a new translation by Wiesel's wife, Marion, and a new preface by Wiesel, and by February 13 that year, it was no.

Wiesel implied that it was after his May 1955 meeting with Mauriac that he began to write.