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Posted Monday, December 8, 2003  Index to the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech  Alphabetical index (text)       Quick navigation Mr Irving, take me to …… your index to readers’ letters… your main alphabetical index… your current newsletter… where you will be speaking… news on your legal battles… you and your family… your career so far… how to buy your books… free downloads of your books… how to help your fighting fund… your letters to the press… your publishing Home Page

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Orest Slepokura of Alberta, Canada, reminds us Wednesday, January 14, 2004 that Wiesel’s book is designated as a novel.     Can we believe in Wiesel? Regarding Deborah Barnhardt’s reaction to people’s skepticism at Elie Wiesel’s capacity for truth. Here is a quotation from Elie Wiesel, in reference to his own Holocaust writings: “Things are not that simple, Rebbe. Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred.”Source: Elie Wiesel’s Legends of Our Time, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968, p. viii. As for Elie Wiesel’s “memoir” Night — isn’t it designated as a novel? In other words, a work of his imagination. Orest Slepokura Alberta, Canada    Our index on Elie Wiesel  Events following the liberation of Buchenwald: [A correspondence with Eli Wiesel about his memoirs, Night, and how the account varies significantly from one language-version to the next]  Christopher Hitchens on Wiesel in The Nation, Feb 2001: “Is there a more contemptible poseur and windbag”

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