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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Elie Wiesel's "Night"
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Elie Wiesel's "Night"
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Elie Wiesel's "Night"
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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Elie Wiesel's "Night"

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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Elie Wiesel's "Night", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateFeb 15, 2019
    ISBN9780028666419
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Elie Wiesel's "Night"

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      A Study Guide (New Edition) for Elie Wiesel's "Night" - Gale

      18

      Night

      Elie Wiesel

      1958

      Introduction

      Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel, was first published in Yiddish by an Argentinian publisher, under the title Un di Velt Hot Geshvign (And the World Was Silent) in 1956. Wiesel translated it into French, and it was released as La nuit in 1958; the English version (translated by Stella Rodway) was released in 1960. A second English translation by Wiesel's wife, Marion, was released in 2006. The book describes Wiesel's year in Nazi concentration camps, from 1944 to 1945. He entered the camps at age fifteen, accompanied by his father. For Wiesel, a deeply religious boy, witnessing the senseless cruelty of the Nazis and the dehumanization of the camp inmates leads him to question God, his faith, and his own morality.

      Besides bearing witness to the horrors of the concentration camps, the book also tells a coming-of-age story, as Wiesel grows from a sheltered boy to a tortured man fighting for both his own survival and his father's. In relating his horrific journey, Wiesel touches upon themes of religion, faith, delusion, and survival. The book contains disturbing episodes of cruelty and violence as well as some profanity.

      Author Biography

      Wiesel was born Eliezer Wiesel on September 30, 1928, in Sighet (now Sighetu Marmaƫiei), a town in Maramureş County in Romania. He was the third of four children of Shlomo Wiesel and his wife, Sarah; he had two older sisters, Hilda and Beatrice, and one younger sister, Tzipora. As a boy he pursued religious studies at a local yeshiva (a school for the study of Orthodox Jewish religious texts). In the spring of 1944, German troops appeared in Sighet, and restrictions against Jews followed. In May 1944, Wiesel and his family were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, a Nazi concentration camp in Poland. He and his father were put to work as slave labor. Unknown to Wiesel and his father, his mother and younger sister were put to death in the gas chambers shortly after arriving at Auschwitz.

      Media Adaptations

      An unabridged audiobook version of Night is available at Audible.com. It is narrated by George Guidall, with a running time of four hours and twenty minutes. The two other books in the Night trilogy, titled Dawn (1961) and Day (1962), are also available as audiobooks.

      Wiesel and his father endured many trials in the concentration camp, including beatings, starvation, and illness. They were eventually moved to the Buna camp, from where they were forced to march to Buchenwald, another camp, in January 1945. Shortly after arriving at Buchenwald, Wiesel's father died of dysentery and starvation. The camp was liberated in April by American military. After the war, Wiesel went to France with six hundred other orphans of the war and was found various homes by a Jewish group called the Children's Rescue Society.

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