After undergoing open heart surgery this summer, Nobel laureate, playwright, and award-winning writer Elie Wiesel returned to Boston University to resume his annual series of three lectures. This year’s lectures were among the best attended ever, and Prof. Wiesel astounded his audience with the energy and wit he brought to the customary table-talk. The first lecture, on the biblical story of the Binding of Isaac (“Why I love Isaac”) can be viewed HERE. In a report on the last lecture, of November 21, the independent BU online magazine The quad‘s Allen Lesser laments the hype that surrounded the event and that, in his view, may have obscured Prof. Wiesel’s message. Beyond the lecture series and looking at the coming year, Prof. Wiesel  has expressed eagerness, his health (and his physicians permitting), to return to teaching the classes he has offered at BU for over thirty five years.

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