- Holocaust literature, death marches, Talmud, Siege of Jerusalem
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.
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- Author
- Elie Wiesel
- First published
- 1956
- Pages
- 135
- Publisher
- Gerecor, Limited, New York, NY : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006., Caedmon
- Editions
- 59
- Language
- French, yid, heb, German
- ISBN
- 9781419390692
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“They called him Moche the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life.”
Eliezer Wiesel is a Romania-born American novelist, political activist, and Holocaust survivor of Hungarian Jewish descent. He is the author of over 40 books, the best known of which is Night, a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps. Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. On November 30, 2006 Wiesel received an honorary knighthood in London, England in recognition of his work toward raising Holocaust education in the United Kingdom. Source: Goodreads.com
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