Dawn

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"An illuminating document... the plightof traditional Jewish morality confronted with the modern world of power politics and of murder." - Maxwell Geismar Two men wait through the night in British-controlled Palestine for dawn - and for death. One is a oaptured English officer. The other is Elisha, a young Israeli freedom fighter whose assignment is to kill 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. His future is a cherished dream of life in the promised homeland. But at daybreak his present will become the tortured 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... Tovább

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"An illuminating document... the plightof traditional Jewish morality confronted with the modern world of power politics and of murder." - Maxwell Geismar Two men wait through the night in British-controlled Palestine for dawn - and for death. One is a oaptured English officer. The other is Elisha, a young Israeli freedom fighter whose assignment is to kill 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. His future is a cherished dream of life in the promised homeland. But at daybreak his present will become the tortured 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 unforgettably recorded in NIGHT, which became a worldwide bestseller. Elie Wiesel is Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and chairman of the United States Holocaust Memóriái Council.____ DONT MISS THESE OTHER BANTAM BOOKS BY ELIE WIESEL NIGHT • THE ACCIDENT • THE TESTAMENT Vissza