Wiesel

[ wi-zel ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

El·ie [el, -ee], Eliezer, 1928–2016, U.S. author, born in Romania: Nobel Peace Prize 1986.

Wiesel

/ ˈviːzəl /

WieselElie1928MUSPOLITICS: hunan-rights campaigner Elie. born 1928, US human rights campaigner: noted esp for his documentaries of wartime atrocities against the Jews; Nobel peace prize (1986); honorary knighthood (2006)

Elie Wiesel, who was involved with the Irgun Zionist underground, is a 1986 Peace Laureate.

Has it not been vividly described in all its horror by Eli Wiesel and others?

His list is impressive: Elie Wiesel, Mark Helprin, Christopher R. Beha, and Alice McDermott.

Well, he defended his remarks by citing Nobel Laureatue Elie Wiesel.

With his win, Obama follows in the footsteps of Elie Wiesel, Kissinger, Martin Luther King, Carter—and Woodrow Wilson after WWI.

Wiesel soon became the assiduous and indispensable friend of the family.

Herself unmarried, she consented to become the intermediary between him and the abandoned Pauline Wiesel.

No one was more talked of for her beauty at this time than Pauline Wiesel.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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