Dawn

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"An illuminating document the plightof traditional Jewish moraliíy confronted wiíh the modern world of power politics and of murder."
- Maxwell Geismar
Two men wait through the night in British-controlled Pal-estine for dawn - and for death. One is a captured English officer. The other is Elisha, a young Israeli free-dom fighter whose assignment is to kíll the officer in reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner. Elisha's past is the nightmare memory of Nazi death camps. He is the only surviving member of his family. Hís future is a cherished dream of life in the promised home-land. But at daybreak his present will become the tor-tured reality of a principled man ordered to commit cold-blooded murder. Resonant with feeling, DAWN is an unforgettable journey into the humán heart -and an eloquent statement about the morál basis of the new Israel.__
Elie Wiesel was born in the town of Sighet in Transylvania. He was still a teenager when he was taken from his home to... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"An illuminating document the plightof traditional Jewish moraliíy confronted wiíh the modern world of power politics and of murder."
- Maxwell Geismar
Two men wait through the night in British-controlled Pal-estine for dawn - and for death. One is a captured English officer. The other is Elisha, a young Israeli free-dom fighter whose assignment is to kíll the officer in reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner. Elisha's past is the nightmare memory of Nazi death camps. He is the only surviving member of his family. Hís future is a cherished dream of life in the promised home-land. But at daybreak his present will become the tor-tured reality of a principled man ordered to commit cold-blooded murder. Resonant with feeling, DAWN is an unforgettable journey into the humán heart -and an eloquent statement about the morál basis of the new Israel.__
Elie Wiesel was born in the town of Sighet in Transylvania. He was still a teenager when he was taken from his home to the Auschwitz concentration camp and then to Buchenwald. His memoirs of that experience are un-forgettably recorded in NIGHT, which became a world-wide bestseller. Elie Wiesel is Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and chairman of the United States Holocaust Memóriái Council. _
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