PathosWiesel is speaking from the heart here. By baring his soul in this speech, he's trying to appeal to his audience's hearts with his call for peace. Weary of global suffering, he's calling out...

The Three-Ring SpeechElie Wiesel, in this speech, follows a pretty simple format that you all should try at home. It works great in both speeches and essays, and it goes a little something like thi...

"Hope, Despair and Memory"Like many (read: pretty much all) speeches, it was only named after the fact. Beforehand it was just called Elie Wiesel's Nobel Lecture.Yeah. That doesn't have much of a r...

A Hasidic legend tells us that the great Rabbi Baal-Shem-Tov, Master of the Good Name, also known as the Besht, undertook an urgent and perilous mission: to hasten the coming of the Messiah. (1, 1)...

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other. (29, 9)This, folks, is a classic call to action. And what better action could you be called to do...

(4) Base CampTough as in difficult to understand? You're all good. Some intense vocabulary aside, Elie Wiesel does a great job at keeping this lecture accessible for a general audience. This man ha...

In-Text ReferencesLiterary and Philosophical ReferencesJohann Wolfgang von Goethe (8, 4)Historical and Political ReferencesRabbi Baal-Shem-Tov (1, 1), (29, 6)Shimon Dubnov (18, 1)Nelson Mandela (25...

Night wasn't the original name for Wiesel's most famous book. The original 800-page manuscript was titled Un di Velt Hot Geshvign—Yiddish for And the World Remained Silent. We think this original...