Elie Wiesel's Home Study

Wiesel’s home study in Manhattan is packed with plenty of mundane, familiar needs — books and files, staplers and tape dispensers, papers and pens — but here, the eye is drawn to a sacred object: Wiesel’s personal Torah scroll, housed in its own bookshelf cabinet.

From “Quiet Places” in the New York Times; photo by Mitch Epstein (@mitch_epstein)

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