They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life.
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Night
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Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's testimony to what happened in the camps and of his unforgettable message that this horror must simply never be allowed to happen again.
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Holocaust literature, death marches, Talmud, Siege of Jerusalem, Cabala, Hasidism, yellow badges, Kaddish, death of God, Buchenwald Resistance, Concentration camps, World War, 1939-1945, Jewish Personal narratives, Children in the Holocaust, Holocaust survivors, Personal narratives, Jewish authors, Modern Literature, French Authors, History, Jews, Ethnic relations, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Childhood and youth, Biography, Youth, Genocide, Persecutions, Children, Creative nonfiction, Autobiography, war and conflict, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, science fiction, general, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives, Fiction, general, Romance literature, Jews, biography, Jews, romania, Romania, biography, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, general, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Canadian drama (dramatic works by one author), Philosophy, Wiesel, elie, 1928-2016, Transylvania (romania), Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Literature, collections, Holocaust, 1939-1945, History and criticism, Prisoners' writings, Romanian, Study and teaching (Secondary), Wiesel, elie , 1928-2016, Childhood and youthwiesel, elie , 1928-2016, World war, 1939-1945--personal narratives, jewish, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)--personal narratives, Jews--romania--sighet--biography, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)--romania--sighet--personal narratives, Concentration camps--autobiography, Holocaust, Holocaust--autobiography, Jews--autobiography, Ds135.r73 w54813 2006, D810.j4 w514 2006, Ds135 .r73 w651n 2006, Second world war, Kabbalah, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945) fast (ocolc)fst00958866, Personal memoirs, English & college success -> english -> biography & autobiography, Social sciences -> history -> jewish historyPeople
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Table of Contents
Preface to the New Translation / Elie Wiesel
Foreword / François Mauriac
Night
The Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech delivered by Elie Wiesel in Oslo on December 10, 1986
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Originally published as Un di ṿelṭ hoṭ geshṿign
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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. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be. - Publisher.
Night is Elie Wiesel's account of his childhood experiences in a Hungarian ghetto and the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
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