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various projects including after-school
writer and public activist. He.
programs for Ethiopian schoolchild-
acknowledges a certain degree of self-
ren in Israel whose parents are unable
censorship, particularly in writing
to help with their homework.
about his confrontations with leaders
He also spends a lot of time speak-
in Israel, American Jewish spokesman
ing,
attending conferences and other
and certain Holocaust scholars.
events,
and turns down many invita-
"I want to be a defender of Jews,
dons;
he
struggles to find more time
not their adversary. We have enough
for
his
literary
pursuits.
enemies as it is," he says. But he
In addition, Wiesel spends much
reveals that he maintains a secret file
time answering the. many requests for
with the names and errors of*"certain
help he gets from indi-
leaders." Apparently, so
viduals
who think he
damning is the file that
Above left: Receiving
can
help
their cause.
he has given instruc-
Francois Mitterand at the
"You
know
the presi-
tions not to open it
Wiesel home in New York,
dent,"
they
often
say,
until 50 years after his
March 24, 1984. Leonard
he
recounts,
smiling,
death.
Bernstein is at left. "Again
and then adding with
Wiesel's voice rises
and again [Mitterand] asks,
typical humility, "I
above its characteristic
`What does Jewish tradition
say about the immortality of know my limitations."
whisper when asked
Among his list of
the soul?'"
how he feels about his
books
are novels,
public status as a "hero-
essays,
plays, stories,
Above
right:
With
Yitzhak
ic Holocaust survivor,"
retellings
of legends,
ear
Rabin:
"I
have
lived
in
and now "the moral
dialogues,
children's
of
the
consequences
of
the
conscience of his time."
books
and
memoirs.
hatred
that
has
befallen
"Survival was sheer
When asked if some
[Israel] for a long time."
luck, nothing else," he
form of writing feels
declares emphatically.
most expressive, he says
"It wasn't heroism, or
that
all
of
his
writing
"comes from the
initiative or intelligence, just sheer
heart.
I
wouldn't
write
otherwise."
chance."
He's
now
working
on
a nonfiction
While he has become accustomed
My
Teachers
and My
book
to
be
titled
to being introduced as the conscience
The
Judges,
A
new
novel,
Friends.
of mankind, he is not flattered. "I
already published in France, will be
don't enjoy it; I resent it," Wiesel
published here next year, along with a
says. "Nobody has appointed me as a
new collection of essays.
symbol of conscience. They can say
Does the Holocaust inform
I'm a teacher, yes, a witness, yes, a
everything
he writes? "It's there,
writer, yes, but anything else I don't
without
emphasizing
it, without
accept. I used to protest such intro-
saying
so.
Even
if
I
write
about the
ductions, but now I'm fed up even
Talmud,
it
is
there."
with the protests."
About future books, he says, "The
The Andrew W. Mellon Professor
author of Ecclesiastes does not believe
in the Humanities at Boston
in books, but I cling to them. The
University, Wiesel keeps up a dizzying
day I stop writing, what shall I be? I
schedule of travel, teaching and writ-
still have so many stories to tell, so
ing. Mornings, Weisel, who describes
many subjects to explore, so many
himself as a Chasid "even though I
characters
to invent or reveal. I am
don't look like one," spends time
still tormented by the same anguish:
studying Talmud. With his wife, he
Notwithstanding all the books I have
runs the Elie Wiesel Foundation for
written, I have not yet begun."
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