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Night

Elie Wiesel. Night. Quick Write. “Indifference to evil is evil.” -Elie Wiesel How does this relate to Einstein’s quote? Interpret this quote into your own words.

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Night

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  1. Elie Wiesel Night

  2. Quick Write • “Indifference to evil is evil.” -Elie Wiesel • How does this relate to Einstein’s quote? Interpret this quote into your own words. “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” -Albert Einstein

  3. Background Info. • In Night, Elie Wiesel shares his story of the Holocaust, the name given to the persecution and murder of millions of Jews and others during World War II. • Holocaust comes from a Greek word that means “a burnt offering.”

  4. In the beginning… • Germany began World War II when it invaded Poland in 1939. • German forces conquered most of Europe in the next two years.

  5. Wiesel’s story begins in Romania (now Hungary) in 1941 and ends in 1944. When Germans took over this area, local Jews were persecuted. • They were forced to wear yellow stars and to live in ghettos, and were then sent to concentration camps.

  6. Nazis also targeted other groups: -Romany (Gypsies) - Russians - non-Jewish Polish intellectual and religious leaders - Jehovah’s Witnesses - Communists

  7. Auschwitz, where Wiesel was sent, was the largest camp. • Jews from all over Europe arrived almost daily at Auschwitz. • World War II ended in Europe in 1945 with the surrender of German forces to the Allied forces.

  8. Finally, the good stuff you’ve been waiting for: JEWISH ALLUSIONS!! Hasidic- Of a Jewish sect of mystics that originated in Poland in the eighteenth century, which stresses joyful worship of a God believed to be present in everything.

  9. Synagogue (n)- A building used by Jewish people for religious study and worship.

  10. cabbala (n) - An occult (belief in supernatural/magic/astrology) Jewish philosophy based on a mystical interpretation of the Scriptures.

  11. Talmud- A book of detailed expositions and interpretations of Hebrew scripture; the writings that make up Jewish law.

  12. The destruction of the Temple- King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon captured the Jewish city of Jerusalem and destroyed its Temple in 587 B.C.E. (Before the Common Era – Same thing as B.C. –Before Christ –but has no religious reference)

  13. Maimonides - A twelfth-century Spanish rabbi and one of the most revered of Jewish philosophers.

  14. Zionism- Formerly, a movement for reestablishment of a Jewish state; now a movement supporting the Jewish state of Israel.

  15. Passover - A Jewish holiday celebrating the deliverance of the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt.

  16. phylacteries (n)- Small cases holding copies of passages from Scripture worn on the forehead and left arm during weekday morning prayers.

  17. The captivity of Babylon- The period from 597 to 538 B.C.E. during which Jerusalem was conquered by King Nebuchadnezzar and the Jewish people were sent into captivity in Babylon.

  18. cabbala (n) - An occult (belief in supernatural/magic/astrology) Jewish philosophy based on a mystical interpretation of the Scriptures.

  19. rabbi (n) - A scholar and teacher of Jewish law; the spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation

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