Elie Wiesel
 University Professor; Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Philosophy and Religion, College of Arts and Sciences.
Litt.D. (hon.), Jewish Theological Seminary; L.H.D. (hon.), Hebrew Union College, Yale University, Boston University, Brandeis, and the University of Notre Dame, among others.
The recipient of more than 100 honorary degrees, and more than 120 other honors, Professor Wiesel has also received many awards for his writings which include such nonfiction works as the autobiographical Night (1960), The Jews of Silence (1966), Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of the Hasidic Masters (1972), Somewhere a Master: Further Hasidic Portraits and Legends (1982), Sages and Dreamers, Portraits and Legends from the Bible, the Talmud, and the Hasidic Tradition (1991), and Wise Men and Their Tales: Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Masters (2003), as well as essays such as the collections, One Generation After (1970), A Jew Today (1978), From the Kingdom of Memory (1990), and After the Darkness (2002). He has written a children’s book, King Solomon and his Magic Ring (1999), plays, a cantata, and many novels, including The Town Beyond the Wall (1964), The Gates of the Forest (1966), A Beggar in Jerusalem (1970), Twilight (1988), The Forgotten (1992), The Judges (2002, and Les temps des déracinés (2003). The first volume of his memoirs, All Rivers Run to the Sea, was published by Knopf in 1995, and the second volume, And the Sea is Never Full, in 1999. More than fifty books have been written about him. In 1995, he was included as one of fifty great Americans in the special fiftieth edition of Who’s Who In America. In 1985, President Reagan presented him with the Congressional Gold Medal, and in 1992, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bush. In 1986, Professor Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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