Man of the Night

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Man of the Night

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Jul 3, 2023

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Joseph Berger, formerly a New York Times journalist, discusses his book Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence, the first English-language biography of the iconic Jewish intellectual and Holocaust author.

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Jul 3, 2023

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