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1. Night By Elie Wiesel
2. Setting Hungary, Poland, Germany
1941-45
3. Setting Buchenwald
Auschwitz
7. Author Elie Wiesel
Jewish ancestry
Concentration camp survivor
8. Author Elie Wiesel – a writer
Five Novels
3 major plays: Zalmon, The Madness of God, and The Trials of God
Numerous other works
9. Night Subjective – recounts the concentration camps from a personal perspective
Focus on Wiesel’s memories
Facts and feelings are combined
11. Night Issues and Themes Cruelty of man – how much evil are humans capable of?
Indifference of God – why doesn’t an all-powerful God prevent evil and pain?
12. Vocabulary Rosh Hashanah –
Jewish New Year’s Day
Observed in the months of either September or October (depending on the year)
13. Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur
“Day of Atonement”
Religious festival celebrating Jahweh’s forgiveness for sins
September-October
14. Passover –
Holiday celebrating the Jews’ liberation from Egypt
March-April
15. Pentecost
50 days after Passover
16. Torah
The first five books of the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible)
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
17. Talmud
Writings of famous Rabbis on religious subjects
18. Cabbala
Mystical, secret knowledge of the Torah and Talmud
Teaching that the Torah has secret or hidden messages
19. Zion
Jerusalem
A Zionist is a person who desires to travel and live in Jerusalem
20. Synagogue
A Jewish place of worship
21. Kaddish
Hebrew Death Prayer
Similar to the Last Rites of Catholicism