The Elie Wiesel Living Archive

at The 92nd Street Y, New York. Supported by The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity

In Modern Times: All Rivers Run to the Sea

Memoirs: A Balance Sheet of Dreams and Stories

Nov 09, 1995

Professor Wiesel talks about his memoir, All Rivers Run to the Sea. Five days after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, he recalls his first meeting with Rabin in 1967 and advocates a communal fast as a fitting response. Professor Wiesel explains that his new book is structured around a series of dreams of his father, mother and family. He speaks more about his family and those who were close to him in this memoir than in Night. He speaks of his life after the war in Paris, later as a journalist and his coming to New York. He concludes with his marriage in 1969 in Jerusalem, a groom and son receptive to stories he has already told and to stories he has yet to tell.

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1) Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
2) Clinton and Rabin
3) Wiesel’s Dreams of His Father and Mother
4) Wiesel’s Childhood
5) Wiesel’s Postwar Years: Paris and New York
6) Crystal Night and Rabin’s Murder in the Month of Cheshvan
7) Wiesel’s Siblings
8) Wiesel’s Bar Mitzvah
9) Hasidic Fervor
10) Family Memories
11) Why Write?
12) Friendship
13) Wiesel, the Choir Director
14) Wiesel, the Yiddish Journalist
15) DP Camps, Post Holocaust
16) Wiesel’s Wedding in Jerusalem
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