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"I didn't even on the last transport, I was on the first. I know what it meant. I was trembling all left on Monday, he left Thursday," recalls Halivni, as if it occurred last week. "So we the time because I wouldn't know what to came to Auschwitz at different times." "We met in Auschwitz," says Rabbi do. So I prayed." Menashe Klein. Wearing a black chasidic robe, Izitzit, white beard and sidelocks, Klein it," he says, smiling and shaking his head at strikes one as Wiesel's Old World alter ego. the incredible path his life has taken. "Somehow we got to Buchenwald and were "Thirty-eight years have passed, and the liberated there together," he says. "We-went schedule keeps getting heavier and heavier." to France then, and Professor Wiesel attend­ Books are everywhere at Wiesel's home ed the Sorbonne. I, on die other hand, kept on the 26th floor of a nondescript Upper dwelling in our Torah." East Side Manhattan apartment building. Rabbi Klein, whose study in Brooklyn is A visitor is first confronted by thousands also crowded with religious books, explains of books in Hebrew, Yiddish, French and that Wiesel took a different path after the English that cover nearly every inch of war as a result of the shock of his experi­ space between tlie floor and ceiling of the ences during the Holocaust. L-shaped living room. One upper shelf in After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris, a corner is devoted to the more- than 30 where he earned money directing a choir. titles bearing Wiesel's name. Later he became the Paris correspondent Two framed pictures are the lone excep­ for the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot, earning tions to the otherwise book-lined walls. $30 a month. His big break came when he When Wiesel sits at his large desk, he faces moved to New York to work with the Yiddish on the far wall a sketch ofjerusalem. When Forwaid, earning $175 a month as a copy edi­ he turns around to use the computer, he tor, writer and translator. "I remember when looks right into a dark black and white pho­ he lived on 103d Street," says Halivni. "He had tograph of the house in Sighet where he only a small room, narrow, dark—you could grew up. "Since I began writing, I always face see the poverty. I remember him sitting on that house," he said in a television interview. the floor surrounded by records of Bach. At "I must know where I come from." that time he was practically starving." In 1956, Wiesel stepped off a curb in liezer Wiesel was born in the pic­ Times Square and was struck by a speeding turesque town of Sighet, below the taxi. Following the accident, which left him ECarpathian mountains that were hospitalized for seven months, Wiesel des­ once home to the Ba'al Shem Tov, the perately needed money and tried covering fadier of chasidism. Tantalized by chasidic the United Nations for Yediot on crutches. tales his grandfather told, Wiesel's happi­ Golda Meir, then foreign minister, took pity est childhood memories are punctuated on the young journalist and would invite with Shabbat songs, eating chocolates and him back to her hotel suite, where she studying a page of Talmud under a tree would prepare omelettes and tea and brief while the other youngsters played ball. him on the day's events. In 1967, his books, "He was a little sickly and certainly what which had been commercial failures, began we call bookish," recalls Professor David to sell, and Wiesel was able to leave daily Weiss Halivni, who studied in chederviilh journalism to concentrate on book writing. Wiesel in Sighet. Halivni, now a professor So powerfully embedded in the popular of religion at Columbia University and one psyche is Wiesel's association with the of Wiesel's closest friends, says that even Holocaust that many would find it surprising as a child, Wiesel was "artistically more sen­ that the topic rarely comes up in his classes sitive" to the mystical teachings of their or in his writings. "When people didn't talk teacher. Halivni believes Wiesel's sense of about the Shoah, I felt I had to. So many peo- pie are doing it now, I don't need to any Jewish people." Like Wiesel and Halivni, more," he explains. In fact, he always thinks Klein is consumed by his study and writing, twice about raising the issue. Tm afraid of having authored over 6,000 teshuvot— making it into a routine. I want it that when­ detailed responses to halachic questions. ever I mention the word Shoah, I should stop "A person cannot live with the feeling for a second and my voice should tremble, that they have achieved the highest," says my whole being should tremble before pro­ Halivni, who claims that the Nobel Prize has nouncing drat word." been a mixed blessing for Wiesel. "The Halivni leaves public speaking about the Nobel Prize did not become an end, rather Holocaust to Wiesel. "But when he comes a new beginning. He realizes that the Nobel to see me," he says, "he listens and I shout." Prize was given to him as 'Mr. Jew,' and While the Holocaust rarely figures promi­ dierefore he owes it to thejewish people. In nently in Wiesel's public life anymore, his a sense it entails a greater responsibility. It sensitivity as a survivor gives him an appre­ has imposed a burden on him; the possi­ ciation for every moment, and for life's bility of extending help, because of his con­ fragility. He and his wife, Marion, still travel nections, is much bigger. There is nothing on separate flights. 'Just in case," he says like more frightening for a sensitive person than a quick prayer, eyes flashing toward Heaven. having power." It also drives him to work hard. While New York is far from Sighet, Elie 'There are people who want to do more Wiesel is never far from the forces that than they can. Wiesel is one of them," says molded his childhood: chasidism and the Rabbi Klein, who, like Wiesel, goes to sleep Holocaust. And the struggle of these two late and wakes up early to study and write. forces to coexist in one soul is what shapes Elie Wiesel and his "For Wiesel, the Nobel Prize is no more than Elie Wiesel today, providing the creative wife, Marion, kiss upon hearing the news of a ladder, a step, toward fulfilling the goal for tension for his ongoing achievements. Elie's receipt of the which he remained alive: to do for the Deep within him lies a young yeshivah buch- Nobel Peace Prize. fl-from Sighet; deep within he believes he like the madman. When I began to talk survived the Nazi honors for a purpose, about trying to leach the Shoah, how many as yet unfulfilled. Even so, Elie Wiesel is others were there? When I began for Russian where he wants to be and is probably as Jewry, how many others were there then?" content as he can ever be—unless the "What keeps Wiesel sane?" Klein pon­ Messiah arrives soon to redeem thejewish ders. "We sing together, eat together, daven people, and of course, the world. together, walk together. He conies here before every holiday. Mostly we meet, wc lad in a well-tailored gray suit and talk." Klein says that Wiesel, who sung in a hugging a velvet blue Torah scroll, choir as a child, still loves to sing chasidic CElie Wiesel dances in a tight circle melodies. "He would begin singing Friday with his friends and sings songs of praise night at 5:30 P.M. and wouldn't stop until to the God he has so often challenged. after 2 A.M." Wiesel is glowing; gone is the trademark Wiesel says that his daily study of Jewish somber look that is naturally chiseled in texts is essential for him. "I love to study. It his sullen, handsome face. It is Simchat gives you a good sense of proportion. After Torah for the Jewish people. Yet for Wiesel all, what Rambani says maybe is more it is more; it is also his birthday. important than the article I write for the "We never celebrated birthdays at New York Times." home," Wiesel says of his childhood. He still Halivni and Wiesel express their friend­ rarely celebrates the occasion because "to ship by always speaking Hebrew to each me every minute is a victory." Both Halivni other. Halivni is one of die few who can real­ and Klein speak to Wiesel every year the ly make Wiesel laugh.
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