Thursday, July 7, 2016

BAR Interview with Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross

found here

In Memoriam: Elie Wiesel (1928–2016)

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Elie Wiesel (1928–2016).Photo: David Shankbone’s photo is licensed under CC BY 3.0.
Elie Wiesel, a world-renowned author, human rights advocate, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor, died on July 2, 2016, at the age of 87. Wiesel’s best-known work is his memoirNight, based on his experience as a teenager with his father in the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz, Buna and Buchenwald in 1944–1945 toward the end of World War II.
Wiesel wrote over 10 profiles of Biblical figures for the Biblical Archaeology Society magazine Bible Review in a series calledSupporting Roles.
The July/August 2004 issue of Biblical Archaeology Reviewpublished an interview BAR Editor Hershel Shanks conducted with Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross, then the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages Emeritus at Harvard University (Cross died in 2012). It is republished in full  here

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