Bea wiesel biography

“For me literature must have an ethical dimension. The aim of the literature I call testimony is to disturb. I disturb the believer because I dare to put questions to God, the source of all faith.

I disturb the miscreant because, despite my doubts and questions, I refuse to break with the religious and mystical universe that has shaped my own. Most of all, I disturb those who are comfortably settled within a system—be it political, psychological, or theological.

Bea wiesel biography

If I have learned anything in my life, it is to distrust intellectual comfort.”[1]

Elie (Eliezer) Wiesel, born in Sighet, Romania, on September 30, 1928, was the only son of Shlomo and Sarah (née Feig) Wiesel.

He had two older sisters, Hilda and Beatrice (Bea), and one younger one, Tzipora. His grandfather, Reb Dodye Feig, was a deeply religious Hasid who had a powerful influence on young Elie Wiesel. With local teachers, he studied the Talmud and, against his father’s