A Jew Today

What does it mean to be a Jew today-in America, in Europe, in Israel? Elie Wiesel, whom both the New York Times Book Review and Le Monde have called "one of the great writers of this generation" addresses himself to thee question from the perspective of one whose whole life has been informed by the sense of his Jewishness-from his early childhood in a small town in Transylvania, when lived through Jewish history with each year's holidays and learned that "to be a Jew meant creating links, a network of continuity," through his adolescence in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, where to be a Jew mean too to be marked for extermination, to the present, when some people are already denying the reality of the Holocaust and when Israel inspires both ultimate fear and ultimate hope. ~from inside cover