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NIGHT
Elie Wiesel
W
ITH
R
ELATED
R
EADINGS
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NIGHT by Elie Wiesel, translated by Stella Rodway.
Copyright © 1960 by MacGibbon & Kee.
Copyright renewed © 1988 by The Collins Publishing Group.
Reprinted by permission of Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, LLC.
Acknowledgments are continued on page 152.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-
Night : with related readings / Elie Wiesel.
p. cm. — (EMC masterpiece series access editions)
Originally published in Yiddish in a more expanded version under the
title: Un di velt hot geshvign.
Summary: An autobiographical narrative in which the author describes his
experiences in Nazi concentration camps, watching family and friends die,
and how these experiences led him to believe that God is dead.
ISBN 0-8219-2418-4
1. Wiesel, Elie, 1928—-Childhood and youth. 2. Jews—Romania—Sighet—
Biography. 3. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Romania—Sighet—Personal
narratives. 4. Children in the Holocaust—Biography. [1. Wiesel, Elie, 1928-
2. Jews—Biography. 3. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 4. Holocaust sur-
vivors.] I. Wiesel, Elie, 1928- Velt hot geshvign. II. Title. III. Series.
DS135.R73 W547 2002
940.53’18’092—dc21
2002023009
ISBN 0-8219-2418-4
Copyright © 2003 by EMC Corporation
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be adapted, reproduced,
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Table of Contents
About the Cover Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv
The Life and Works of Elie Wiesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Time Line of Wiesel’s Life and Works
with Related Historical Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
The Historical Context of
Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
x
Characters in
Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
xvi
Echoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Images of the Holocaust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
Foreword by François Mauriac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Respond to the Selection, Chapters 1–2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Chapter 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Chapter 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Respond to the Selection, Chapters 3–4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Chapter 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Chapter 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Chapter 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Chapter 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Chapter 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Respond to the Selection, Chapters 5–9 . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Plot Analysis of
Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
102
Related Readings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
New York Times
Holocaust Coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
from
MAUS: A Survivor’s Tale
by Art Spiegelman . . . . 116
“Death Fugue” by Paul Celan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
“Chorus of the Rescued” by Nelly Sachs . . . . . . . . . . 121
“My Sorrow” by Isabella Leitner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
“Anti-Nazi Movement Still Inspires: Germans recall
rare courage of ‘White Rose’” by Bob Keeler . . . . . 125
“The Perils of Indifference” by Elie Wiesel . . . . . . . . 130
Creative Writing Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Critical Writing Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Handbook of Literary Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
ABOUT THE
Cover Image
City of Jews
from
Triptych,
1978. Oil painting by Samuel Bak.
Courtesy of Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA.
Art Note
Samuel Bak, whose painting appears on the cover of this
book, was born in 1933 in Vilna, Poland. When the Nazis
occupied Poland in 1940, Bak and his family were confined
in the Jewish ghetto of Vilna. His father and all of his grand-
parents were among the 70,000 Jews who were shot in the
mass executions in the Ponari Forest. Samuel Bak and his
mother were sent to a labor camp, from which they escaped
and went into hiding until the end of the war. They were the
only survivors of his family. Today, Bak lives in Boston,
where he has a successful career as a painter.
Samuel Bak’s paintings are about the Holocaust even
when they do not specifically depict it. His landscapes are
often depopulated, just as entire towns and millions of peo-
ple were erased by the Nazis. In the painting on the cover,
City of Jews,
a chimney brings to mind the crematoria of
Auschwitz, where victims of the gas chambers were burned.
The cracked tablets of the Ten Commandments teeter over
the decaying buildings: the laws are literally broken and are
about to fall on the “city of Jews.”
Critical Viewing
1. How would you describe the mood of
City of Jews?
2. Why do you think Bak painted the Ten Commandments
tablets with a crack in them? What might this symbolize?
3. Some viewers have seen a broken Star of David in this
painting. Can you find it? What do you think the
broken star symbolizes?
4. What parallels do you see between Elie Wiesel’s memoir
and Samuel Bak’s painting? Do you see similarities in
the mood evoked by each? In their uses of symbolism?
In the theme each work explores?
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NIGHT

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