Night (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Elie Wiesel
- First Published: 1956
- Genres: Long fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Parents and children, Love or romance, World War II, Guilt, God, Jews or Jewish life, Fathers, Faith, Holocaust, Jewish, Talmud, Horror, Concentration camps
- Locales: Auschwitz-Berkenau, Transylvania, Romania
The Work
Night, Elie Wiesel’s memoir of the Holocaust, tells of his concentration camp experience. Encompassing events from the end of 1941 to 1945, the book ponders a series of questions, whose answers, Moché the Beadle, who was miraculously saved from an early German massacre, reminds the boy, lie “only within yourself.”
Moché, who teaches the boy the beauty of biblical studies, is a strange character with a clownish awkwardness, more God’s madman than mentally ill; he is also a recurring figure in later Wiesel works. After Moché returns to town to...
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