The Oath

The Oath by Elie Wiesel When a Christian boy disappears in
a fictional Eastern European town in the 1920s the local
Jews are quickly accused of ritual murder. There is
tension in the air. A pogrom threatens to erupt. Suddenly
an extraordinary man—Moshe the dreamer a madman and
mystic—steps forward & confesses to a crime he didnt
commit in a vain attempt to save his people from certain
death. The community gathers to hear his last words—a plea
for silence—& everyone present takes an oath: whoever
survives the impending tragedy must never speak of the
town’s last days & nights of terror. For fifty years the
sole survivor keeps his oath—until he meets a man whose
life depends on hearing the story & one man’s loyalty to
the dead confronts head-on another’s reason to go on
living. One of Wiesel’s strongest early novels this
timeless parable about the Jews & their enemies about hate
family friendship & silence is as powerful h