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Joe Berger

@joeberg

30-year veteran @NYTimes. Author of Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence,Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim,Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After Holocaust

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Joined August 2008
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Sad Story of a singular bird watcher Central Park Was Her Home and Her Studio. She Was Killed There. nytimes.com/2026/09/29/nyreg… via @NYTimes
Central Park Was Her Home and Her Studio. She Was Killed There.

Central Park Was Her Home and Her Studio. She Was Killed There.

Francis Lee Rogers painted birds in the park, her home for decades. She was found dead on Sunday, beaten and stabbed, shaking a community of friends and collectors of her art.

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Audiobooks is offering a thrifty way to hear the recorded version of my biography of Elie Wiesel. Alternatively Yale University Press recently published the paperback. % OFF Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence audiobooks.com/promotions/pr…

Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence

As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust with his searing memoir Night. How did this soft-spoken man from...

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60% OFF Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence audiobooks.com/promotions/pr… Happy to say Yale U. Press is promoting an audiobook of my Elie Wiesel biography.
Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence

Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence

As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust with his searing memoir Night. How did this soft-spoken man from...

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70% OFF Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence audiobooks.com/promotions/pr…
Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence

Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence

As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust with his searing memoir Night. How did this soft-spoken man from...

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I'm pleased to let you know that my bio of Elie Wiesel was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in biography, ending up in some very admirable finalist company. (@jewishbook) DRIVE.GOOGLE.COM 73rd Biography finalists.jpg
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Marking 50 years of Ms. magazine with two of its founders at the Silurians Press Club, a riveting program that recalled an era we now might view with disbelief and the transformation of American culture that followed:youtu.be/BMeN81-JgYo
Silurians Press Club ~ Co-Founders of Ms. Magazine ~ Nov. 15, 2023

Silurians Press Club ~ Co-Founders of Ms. Magazine ~ Nov. 15, 2023

http://www.silurians.org/Wednesday, November 15, 2023: Ms. Magaz...

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He walked every block of the Bronx and found traces of a vanished Jewish world forward.com/culture/558414/w…
A new guidebook to the Bronx reveals the borough's Jewish history

A new guidebook to the Bronx reveals the borough's Jewish history

William Helmreich died of COVID-19 before his book, ‘The Bronx Nobody Knows,’ was published. His wife is keeping his work alive

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"The Kubrick Stare" is one of director Stanley Kubrick's most recognizable directorial techniques. A method of shot composition where a character stares at the camera with a forward tilt, to convey to the audience that they are at the peak of their derangement
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A televised interview on my recently published Elie Wiesel bio, with sharp and perceptive questioning by Abigail Pogrebin. youtu.be/8W93oTQm2ck?si=jn0K…
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TLV1 in Israel just released a half-hour audio interview on my bio of Elie Wiesel for its podcast, the Tel Aviv Review. Here's the link:tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv-review/…
Man of the Night - Tel Aviv Review

Man of the Night - Tel Aviv Review

Joseph Berger discusses his book “Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence,” the first English-language biography of the iconic Jewish intellectual and Holocaust author

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Another good review--in the New York Journal of Books nyjournalofbooks.com/search-…
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I'm delighted that "Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence," received a warm review in the Wall Street Journal in the lead of their Books section.wsj.com/articles/elie-wiesel… The review is a tribute to the eloquent person who who seared the Holocaust into the world's conscience.

‘Elie Wiesel’ Review: Voice in the Wilderness

To keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, Elie Wiesel fought against what he identified as a deep unwillingness to speak clearly about the atrocity.

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The first review calls the biography of Elie Wiesel I “an indispensable touchstone.” In praise (and defense) of Elie Wiesel, who spoke with ‘the aura of a prophet’ forward.com/culture/548085/e…
In praise (and defense) of Elie Wiesel, who spoke with 'the aura of a prophet'

In praise (and defense) of Elie Wiesel, who spoke with 'the aura of a prophet'

Concisely chronicling the life and legacy of the Nobel laureate, Joseph Berger's new biography is an indispensable touchstone

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Four Questions with Kayla Cottingham publishersweekly.com/pw/by-t… via @publisherswkly
Four Questions for Kayla Cottingham

Four Questions for Kayla Cottingham

We spoke with Kayla Cottingham about her new YA horror novel, 'This Delicious Death,' and the social taboo of cannibalism

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Check out this article from @nytimes. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. nytimes.com/2023/01/24/busin…
Victor S. Navasky, a Leading Liberal Voice in Journalism, Dies at 90 (Gift Article)

Victor S. Navasky, a Leading Liberal Voice in Journalism, Dies at 90 (Gift Article)

Witty and contrarian, he was the longtime editor and later publisher of The Nation and wrote an acclaimed book about the Hollywood blacklisting era.

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Ken Burns Explores America’s Inaction During the Holocaust nytimes.com/2022/09/01/arts/…
Ken Burns Explores America’s Inaction During the Holocaust (Published 2022)

Ken Burns Explores America’s Inaction During the Holocaust (Published 2022)

“The U.S. and the Holocaust,” coming to PBS Sept. 18, examines the reasons behind the country’s inadequate response to Germany’s persecution of Jews.

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David Weiss Halivni, Controversial Talmudic Scholar, Dies at 94 nytimes.com/2022/07/17/nyreg…
David Weiss Halivni, Controversial Talmudic Scholar, Dies at 94 (Published 2022)

David Weiss Halivni, Controversial Talmudic Scholar, Dies at 94 (Published 2022)

He was considered too radical by many Orthodox rabbis and too regressive by many Conservative Jewish leaders. But his work was widely praised.

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“Real Real Bad” - Hutchinson’s Eyewitness Testimony Reveals White House ... youtu.be/WGNVG5XS4-U via @YouTube
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A.B. Yehoshua, Politically Engaged Israeli Writer, Dies at 85 (Published 2022)

A.B. Yehoshua, Politically Engaged Israeli Writer, Dies at 85 (Published 2022)

In 11 novels, three short-story collections and four plays, he tackled a variety of narrative forms and delved into knotty and uncommon subjects.

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A.B. Yehoshua, Politically Engaged Israeli Writer, Dies at 85 (Published 2022)

A.B. Yehoshua, Politically Engaged Israeli Writer, Dies at 85 (Published 2022)

In 11 novels, three short-story collections and four plays, he tackled a variety of narrative forms and delved into knotty and uncommon subjects.

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