![]() ![]() 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Settings (place) Eliezer’s story begins in Sighet, Transylvania (now part of Romania during Wiesel. Night (Paperback) Published January 1st 2008 by Penguin Books. Setting (time) 19411945, during World War II. Night is Elie Wiesel's account of his childhood experiences in a Hungarian ghetto and the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Night is not meant to be an all-encompassing discourse on the experience of the Holocaust instead, it depicts the extraordinarily personal and painful experiences of a single victim. 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. Elie Wiesel and the Scandal of Jewish Rage Naomi Seidman This language is beginning to invent another me.-Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation It may not have been Elie Wiesels Night that first sounded the note of silence or elicited it from its readers. 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. A reissue of Wiesel’s (Open Heart, 2012, etc.) foundational, exemplary memoir of the Holocaust.Even though bracketed by post-mortem appreciations by Barack Obama, genocide scholar and former U.N. Elie Wiesel said in his new introduction to his classic Night, when his testimonial memoir appeared in the late 1950s. 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. Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Elie Wiesel, a world famous, highly honored (and sometimes-criticized) Jewish writer and political activist, was born in Romania in 1928.The novella Dawn was his first work of fiction, published in 1960. 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.
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