The Art of Inventing Hope

Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel

By: Howard Reich

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

The Art of Inventing Hope offers an unprecedented, in-depth conversation between the world's most revered Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, and a son of survivors, Howard Reich. During the last four years of Wiesel's life, he met frequently with Reich in New York, Chicago, and Florida - and spoke often on the phone - to discuss the subject that linked them: both Wiesel and Reich's father, Robert Reich, were liberated from Buchenwald death camp on April 11, 1945. What had started as an interview assignment from the Chicago Tribune quickly evolved into a friendship and a partnership. Reich and Wiesel believed their colloquy represented a unique exchange between two generations deeply affected by a cataclysmic event. Wiesel said to Reich, "I've never done anything like this before."

Here Wiesel - at the end of his life - looks back on his ideas and writings on the Holocaust, synthesizing them in his conversations with Reich. The insights that Wiesel offered and Reich illuminates can help the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors understand their painful inheritance, while inviting everyone else to partake of Wiesel's wisdom on life, ethics, and morality.

©2019 Howard Reich (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

We can all use a reinventing hope at some point

The narrator did a good job with a difficult subject matter at times. A strong case for developing empathy and understanding of yourself and others.

a view into post holocaust survivors recovery

Elie Wiesel opens up about holocaust survivors lives after liberation. great food for thought for all oppressed people

Important exploration of tragedy and hope

Thank you for this precious book. An important grappling, struggling with tragedy, horror, meaning, faith, hope.

good!

interesting...well narrated...I enjoyed listening. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone, like me, with a fascination with Jewish history.

Emotional Yet Inspiring

I took days-long emotional breaks from this book due to its intense subject, but it was well worth finishing.