Elie Wiesel S Night

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374534756

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Night by Elie Wiesel Pdf

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Born in Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 and deported to the 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 seminal work.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038320342

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Night by Elie Wiesel Pdf

Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.

Author : Harold Bloom,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Authors, French
ISBN : 9781438119151

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Elie Wiesel's Night by Harold Bloom,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom Pdf

Discusses the characters, plot and writing of Night by Elie Wiesel. Includes critical essays on the novel and a brief biography of the author.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466821163

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Dawn by Elie Wiesel Pdf

Elie Wiesel's Dawn is an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings. "The author . . . has built knowledge into artistic fiction." —The New York Times Book Review Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel's ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative. Caught between the manifold horrors of the past and the troubling dilemmas of the present, Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and ultimately God as he waits for the appointed hour and his act of assassination. The basis for the 2014 film of the same name, now available on streaming and home video.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466805361

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Night by Elie Wiesel Pdf

A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. 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.

Author : Ellen S. Fine
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438402796

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Legacy of Night by Ellen S. Fine Pdf

Ellen Fine's book is full of original insights, beautifully written and structured. I could not put it down. It is a very important study." -- Rosette Lamont, Queens College and Graduate School, City University of New York "By treating Wiesel's novels as literary-spiritual stages in the development of Wiesel's larger experience, as a survivor-witness-writer, Dr. Fine's book takes on an inherently dramatic character which makes it alive and exciting as well as instructive." -- Terrence Des Pres, Colgate University "Fine clarifies Wiesel's intentions, especially illuminating the complex variations on the themes of speech and silence, fathers and sons, escape and return--in short, the ideas around which Wiesel organizes his literary universe. No one has done this before so thoroughly." -- Lawrence Langer, Simmons College

Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : UGA:32108000776701

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Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain Pdf

Author : Glencoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08
Category : African American women
ISBN : 0028180321

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Gl Sg Auto/Ms Jane Pitman by Glencoe Pdf

Provides teaching strategies, background, and suggested resources; reproducible student pages to use before, during, and after reading--Cover.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1412517793

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The Accident by Elie Wiesel Pdf

Author : Alan Rosen,Alan Charles Rosen
Publisher : Approaches to Teaching World L
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106018917986

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Approaches to Teaching Wiesel's Night by Alan Rosen,Alan Charles Rosen Pdf

Elie Wiesel is an internationally known author, human rights advocate, and lecturer. Night, his first book (1956 in Yiddish, 1958 in French, 1960 in English; a new English translation appeared in 2006), has become a classic memoir of a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. The seventeen essays of this volume in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature examine the historical, cultural, and literary contexts of Wiesel's book as well as strategies for teaching it in the classroom. Part 1, "Materials," provides resources on the Jewish ghettos and concentration camps of World War II, on the Jewish faith and religious practices, on the genre of victims' diaries, on the critical reception of Night, on Wiesel's other work, and on available audiovisual materials. Part 2, "Approaches," addresses many subjects—among them, Wiesel's narrative techniques, the representation of Auschwitz, the use of different languages, the comparison of Wiesel with Primo Levi, the problems of memory and bearing witness, the Christian response to the Holocaust, and the challenge of teaching a grim and painful text to students.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780809073641

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The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel Pdf

Three works deal with a concentration camp survivor, a hostage holder in Palestine, and a recovering accident victim.

Author : Immaculee Ilibagiza
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781401944322

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Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza Pdf

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans. Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them. It was during those endless hours of unspeakable terror that Immaculee discovered the power of prayer, eventually shedding her fear of death and forging a profound and lasting relationship with God. She emerged from her bathroom hideout having discovered the meaning of truly unconditional love—a love so strong she was able seek out and forgive her family’s killers. The triumphant story of this remarkable young woman’s journey through the darkness of genocide will inspire anyone whose life has been touched by fear, suffering, and loss.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1979-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780394740577

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A Jew Today by Elie Wiesel Pdf

A powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, letters, and diary entries that weave together all the periods of the author's life from his childhood in Transylvania to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Paris, and New York. • "One of the great writers of our generation addresses himself to the question of what it means to be a Jew." —The New Republic Elie Wiesel, acclaimed as one of the most gifted and sensitive writers of our time, probes, from the particular point of view of his Jewishness, such central moral and political issues as Zionism and the Middle East conflict, Solzhenitsyn and Soviet anti-Semitism, the obligations of American Jews toward Israel, the Holocaust and its cheapening in the media. "Rich in autobiographical, philosophical, moral and historical implications." —Chicago Tribune

Author : John Boyne
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781448139880

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne Pdf

Discover an extraordinary tale of innocence, friendship and the horrors of war. 'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone' Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ? And who are all the sad people in striped pyjamas on the other side of the fence? The grown-ups won't explain so Bruno decides there is only one thing for it - he will have to explore this place alone. What he discovers is a new friend. A boy with the very same birthday. A boy in striped pyjamas. But why can't they ever play together? ‘A small wonder of a book’ Guardian BACKSTORY: Read an interview with the author JOHN BOYNE and learn all about the Second World War in Germany.

Author : Alan L. Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781317813972

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Elie Wiesel by Alan L. Berger Pdf

Elie Wiesel: Humanist Messenger for Peace is part biography and part moral history of the intellectual and spiritual journey of Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, human rights activist, author, university professor, and Nobel Peace Prize winner. In this concise text, Alan L. Berger portrays Wiesel’s transformation from a pre-Holocaust, deeply God-fearing youth to a survivor of the Shoah who was left with questions for both God and man. An advisor to American presidents of both political parties, his nearly 60 books voiced an activism on behalf of oppressed people everywhere. The book illuminates Wiesel’s contributions in the areas of religion, human rights, literature, and Jewish thought to show the impact that he has had on American life. Supported by primary documents about and from Wiesel, the volume gives students a gateway to explore Wiesel’s incredible life. This book will make a great addition to courses on American religious or intellectual thought.