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Elie Wiesel's bust will be featured in the National Cathedral. He may (or may not) be the first Jew to get the honor. – The Forward


WASHINGTON (JTA) Washington’s National Cathedral is honoring Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Laureate and Holocaust memoirist, with a bust, the first Jew to be so honored.
Or maybe not the first, depending on where you sit. “I would say he is the first 20th-century Jewish person,” the cathedral’s dean, Rev. Randy Hollerith, said after a reporter asked how Wiesel came to be the first Jew to earn a sculpted depiction at the cathedral.
Asked if he was referring to Jesus and some of the apostles, who also make appearances in statues and in busts in the Washington landmark, Hollerith said yes. ....

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Elie Wiesel Gets Seat at National Cathedral – NBC4 Washington


By Ashraf Khalil •
Updated on April 28, 2021 at 5:15 pm
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Washington National Cathedral, the massive Episcopal house of worship that prides itself on being an unfinished work-in-progress whose stones and stained glass tell the story of the 20th and 21st centuries, is unveiling its newest addition: a carving of iconic author, human rights campaigner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.
The carving completes a quartet of heads of prominent figures sprouting from the four corners of an alcove known as the Human Rights Porch, joining Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks and Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a young Episcopal theologian and civil rights crusader who was shot to death in Alabama in 1965, giving his life to protect a 17-year-old Black woman. ....

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Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel set in stone at National Cathedral


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Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel set in stone at National Cathedral
The carving completes a quartet of heads of prominent figures in the four corners of an alcove known as the Human Rights Porch.
By ASHRAF KHALILAssociated Press
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Washington National Cathedral stone carver Sean Callahan uses an air chisel to work on the sculpture of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winning author Elie Wiesel at the cathedral on March 25. Wiesel, who died in 2016, was an outspoken advocate for human rights causes around the world, helped found the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. ....

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