The video above contains the entire hour and a half star-studded Tribute to Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel hosted by the 92nd Street Y. The Forward reports from the evening:

Elie Wiesel’s 80th birthday, September 30, was celebrated October 2 when the 92nd Street Y held an event titled “A Day of Humanity and Peace — A Tribute to Elie Wiesel.” It was a memorable gift to hundreds of Wiesel fans. “Mayn libe Marion un Elie,” began the Y’s executive director, Sol Adler. “No matter where Elie and Marion’s travels take them, when they return here to the 92nd Street Y, we greet them in Yiddish and they know they are home. Elie sits at a desk and becomes our teacher.” Onstage, Wiesel listened, smiled and at times seemed embarrassed by the acclaim heaped upon him. “He did more than Moses Mendelsohn, the father of Jewish enlightenment. A mensch, a scholar, a leader, he universalizes the Jewish experience,” declared Eric Kandel, the Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist and neuroscientist. Barbara Walters, creator and co-host of ABC-TV’S “The View,” lauded Wiesel as “a gentle yet tough teacher,” and said, “Elie kept Marion busy translating his [40] books.” Wiesel demurred: “Barbara, when you speak, in one day you reach more people than all of my books together.” Arthur Gelb, former managing editor of The New York Times, recalled the April 1985 gold medal ceremony at the White House, during which Wiesel was unable to dissuade President Reagan from visiting the cemetery in Bitburg, Germany. “Elie sent him a copy of his speech in advance… pleaded with the president. The next day, the president switched the event from a room holding 300 to a small one.” Gelb recapped Wiesel’s plea not to visit the cemetery where 47 of Hitler’s elite were buried. “‘That place is not your place — your place is with the victims.’ “The president went [to Bitburg], and Elie, your warning was sounded on the front pages of newspapers all over the world.” Wiesel lamented, “Only why didn’t Jewish leaders speak up to FDR? I was told that when you are in the Oval Office, you can’t say ‘No!’ I taught them that you can say ‘No!’”

Elie Wiesel returns to the Y in December to talk about the place of memory within Jewish literature and in his own work in particular. It is always a major event and honor whenever Elie walks onto the Y stage.