Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom [Paperback]

In the vein ofTuesdays with Morrie, a devoted student and friend of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel invites readers to witness one of the world's greatest thinkers in his own classroom in this instructive and deeply moving read, a National Jewish Book Awardwinner.The world remembers Elie Wiesel (19282016) as a Nobel laureate, activist, and author of more than forty books, including Oprahs Book Club selectionNight. Ariel Burger met Wiesel when he was a teenage student, eager to learn Wiesel's life lessons.Witnesschronicles the intimate conversations between these two men as Burger sought Wiesel's counsel on matters of intellect, faith, and survival while navigating his own personal journey from boyhood to manhood, from student and assistant to rabbi and teacher. In this thought-provoking account, Burger brings the spirit of Wiesels classroom to life, where the art of storytelling and the act of listening conspire to make witnesses of us allas it does for readers of this inspiring book as well.US

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award—Biography   An Indie Next List Pick  A Publishers Lunch Buzz Book   "A beautiful, deeply moving memoir...[a] complex, multilayered book...Burger’s honest depiction of doubt — both Wiesel’s and his own — is a great strength of this memoir, and its constant concern with the limited power of the individual is timeless. While Wiesel privately worried about the power of one person’s words in the face of hatred, this book of questions and memories makes a case for the power of teaching, and for words as perhaps the ultimate teachers of how to live." —Chicago Tribune   "Burger transports the reader to those salons of learning on the Charles River, where Wiesel's students over the years ranged from the granddaugl³o