Elie Wiesel and Bartolome de las Casas


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Virtual Reference Book
Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
This three volume set covers the Nazi Holocaust, "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia, tribal warfare in Rwanda and more. The Encyclopedia spans the globe to explain the issues behind crimes against humanity and human rights issues as they relate to individual countries and the world at large. It traces the history of events that qualify as genocide and crimes against humanity, profiles perpetrators and heroes, and explains international laws and law proceedings aimed at ending genocide and crimes against humanity. It also delves into depictions and manifestations of the phenomenon, such as propaganda, sociological and philosophical explanations, literature and film.
http://find.galegroup.com/

Elie Wiesel
Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior: Auschwitz
This is a downloadable .pdf. Save this to your documents folder.
Strom, Margot Stern
Facing History and Ourselves
Brookline: Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation, Inc., 1994, pages 343 - 393.

“The Ethics of Reading Elie Wiesel’s Night” by Daniel R. Schwarz
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2342/is_2_32/ai_54637193/pg_8
This chapter from Schwarz’s book Imagining the Holocaust discusses the artistic/literary aspects of Wiesel’s Night. Beware! It is rather academic, but it makes many interesting points. I recommend beginning with section II on page 2.

“The Translation of Wiesel's Night Is New, but Old Questions Are Raised” by Edward Wyatt
The Translation of Wiesel's Night is New, but Old Questions are Raised
This New York Times article also deals with the controversy of fact vs. fiction in Night and whether or not it should be labeled as a novel, memoir, or autobiography.

Night: Context (Sparknotes)
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/night/context.html
Sparknotes does provide some specific information regarding which parts of Night were fictionalized and why.

Academy of Achievement Interview with Elie Wiesel
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/wie0int-3
This interview provides some interesting information on Wiesel’s childhood, his motivations for writing Night, and why he waited ten years to write it.

An Interview With Elie Wiesel
This is a .pdf that you can download.
An Interview with Elie Wiesel
Robert Franciosi; Brian Shaffer; Elie Wiesel
Contemporary Literature > Vol. 28, No. 3 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 287-300

Are We Forgetting the Unforgettable?
Link to BBC News Article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4206441.stm

Elie Wiesel's Secretive Texts
Colin Davis.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994.

An Interview with Elie Wiesel
Author: Anonymous.
Source: Tikkun. v14n4 (Jul 1999):
33-34 ISSN: 0887-9982 Number: 04358751 Copyright:
Copyright Tikkun 1999

Wiesel Words
Author: Hitchens, Christopher
Source: Nation. 272, no. 7 (Feb 19, 2001): p. 9. ISSN: 0027-8378 Number:
68714378 Copyright: Copyright Nation Company L.P. Feb 19, 2001

Elie Wiesel and the Politics of Moral Leadership
Author: Abzug, Robert H
Source: Christian Century. 119, no. 14 (Jul 3-Jul 10, 2002): p. 40 ISSN: 0009-5281
Number: 136804691 Copyright: Copyright Christian
Century Foundation Jul 3-Jul 10, 2002

Oprah Talks to Elie Wiesel
O Magazine. November 2000, pages 232-286.
.pdf of the article

Oprah Talks to Elie Wiesel
http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/200011/omag_200011_elie.jhtml
Listen in on Oprah's one-on-one conversation with Nobel prize winning Elie Wiesel.

Night: Memoir or Novel
Excerpt of Wikipedia article on Night.

Bartolome de las Casas
Broken Spears
This is a downloadable .pdf. Save this to your documents folder. You can turn the .pdf so that you can read it horizontally.
Portilla, Miguel León and Lysander Kemp
The Broken Spears: the Aztec account of the conquest of Mexico
Boston: Beacon Press, 1962.
English translation by Lysander Kemp. Illus., adapted from original codices paintings, by Alberto Beltran.

Bartolome de las Casas Defends the Rights of Native Peoples by Eryn M Scholtes
http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/Americas/DelasCasas.CP.html

Bartolomé de las Casas on New Advent Encyclopedia
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03397a.htm

Las Casas on answers.com
http://www.answers.com/topic/bartolom-de-las-casas?gwp=19

The Discursive Encounter of Spain and America: The Authority of Eyewitness Testimony in the Writing of History by Rolena Adorno
The William and Mary Quarterly, April 1992. pp. 210-228.
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/art/ADORNO02.ART

Montezuma II
Berdan, Frances F., The Aztecs of Central Mexico: An Imperial Society, 1982; Cortés, Hernando, Letters from Mexico, 1986; Hassig, Ross, Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control, 1988. 2006 ABC-CLIO.

This site provides information on the conquest of Mexico.
http://www.historians.org/tl/LessonPlans/ca/Fitch/cover.htm

Hernando Cortés on the Web.
http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/cortes/3.html

Siege of Tenochtitlan
Cantu, Caesar C., Cortes and the Fall of the Aztec Empire, 1996; Henderson, Keith, The Fall of the Aztec Empire, 1993. 2006 ABC-CLIO.

Fall of the Aztec Empire
Carrasco, David, Moctezuma's Mexico, 1992; Innes, Hammond, The Conquistadors, 1969; White, Jon Manchip, Cortes and the Downfall of the Aztec Empire, 1971. 2006 ABC-CLIO.

Bartolome de las Casas
Brown, Robert McAfee, "Witness: Writings of Bartolome de las Casas," Christian Century, July 1, 1992; "Discourses on Colonialism: Bernal Diaz, Las Casas, and the Twentieth Century reader," MLN, March 1988; Hank, Lewis, Bartolomé de Las Casas: An Interpretation of his Life and Writings, 1959; Kicza, John E., "Indian Freedom: The Cause of Bartolome de Las Casas, 1484-1566, A Reader," Hispanic American Historical Review, November 1996; Wagner, Henry ,and Helen Rand Parish, The Life and Writings of Bartolomé de Las Casas, 1967. 2006 ABC-CLIO.

Hernando Cortes
Innes, Hammond, The Conquistadors, 1969; Ober, Frederick, Hernando Cortés, 1905; Rosen, Harry, and Irwin Blacker, eds., The Golden Conquistadores, 1960; Weber, David, The Spanish Frontier in North America, 1992. 2006 ABC-CLIO.

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