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Full title Night. Author Elie Wiesel. Type of work Literary memoir. Genre World War II and Holocaust autobiography. Language Wiesel first wrote an 800-page text in Yiddish titled Un di Velt Hot Geshvign (And the World Remained Silent). The work later evolved into the much-shorter French publication La Nuit, which was then translated into ...
Eliezer begins to study the Cabbala, the book of Jewish mysticism, with an immigrant named Moché the Beadle. When the Hungarian police deport all of the foreign Jews, Moché is sent away, but he returns with a terrible and fantastic tale: the Gestapo stopped the train and slaughtered the deported Jews.
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. T...
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After a decade of silence regarding his experiences during the Holocaust, Wiesel wrote Un di Velt Hot Geshvign which, two years and many revisions later, became the novel Night. Wiesel explains in his Preface to the text’s 2006 translation that despite his struggle to put the horrors he experienced into words, he felt a moral obligation to do so.
Why did Elie Wiesel write Night? How does Wiesel characterize himself/Eliezer in the novel? What is the significance of the novel’s first-person point of view? What does night symbolize? What gives Eliezer the strength to survive the Holocaust? What happens when Moishe is deported from Sighet? What does Madame Schächter’s nightmare foreshadow?
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