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An edition of La Nuit (1955)

Night

1st ed

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  • ★★★★ 4.3 (47 ratings)
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  • 36 Currently reading
  • 103 Have read

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.
--back cover

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Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Pages
120

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Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) Allies Hilda Wiesel Beatrice Wiesel Tzipora Wiesel Chlomo Wiesel Moshe the Beadle God Gestapo SS Sixth Armored Division

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Romania Sighet Sighet (Romania) Europe Poland Eastern Germany Auschwitz Buchenwald Nazi Germany Weimar Jerusalem Hungary Galacia Kolomay Monowitz Buna Gleiwitz Transylvania (Romania)

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20th century 1944 1945 1941

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Night
2006, Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Night
1989 10, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - Bantam Edition [19]
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1986, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - Bantam ed. [36]
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Night
1986, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - Bantam ed. [79]
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Night
1986, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - Bantam Edition [71]
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Night
March 1, 1982, Bantam
Mass Market Paperback in English
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Night
1982, Bantam Books, Bantam
in English - Bantam ed.
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Night
1973 04, FONTANA / Collins
Paperback in English - Second impression
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Night
1960 09, Hill and Wang
Hardcover in English, French, and Yiddish - 1st American ed.
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La nuit
1958, Éditions de Minuit
in French

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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

Edition Notes

Originally published as Un di ṿelṭ hoṭ geshṿign

Published in
New York
Genre
Personal narratives, Jewish, Personal narratives
Copyright Date
2006

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.53/18092 B
Library of Congress
DS135.R73 W54813 2006

Contributors

Translator
Marion Wiesel
Foreword
François Mauriac

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxi, 120 p. ;
Number of pages
120
Dimensions
22 x x centimeters

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17193251M
ISBN 10
0374500010
ISBN 13
9780374500016
LCCN
2005936797
OCLC/WorldCat
65206975
Paperback Swap
0374500010
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0374500010
LibraryThing
2619901
Goodreads
48985689

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL14856842W

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Work Description

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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Night with Related Readings
La Nuit / L'Aube / Le Jour

Excerpts

They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life.
added by Lisa.

first sentence.

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