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Night by Elie Wiesel

Night by Elie Wiesel. Study Guide Notes. Night Study Guide Notes. The original title Elie Wiesel gave the novel was And the World Has Remained Silent . He wrote this book after 10 years of silence. By the end of the Holocaust, over 6 million Jews had been killed.

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Night by Elie Wiesel

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  1. Night by Elie Wiesel Study Guide Notes

  2. Night Study Guide Notes • The original title Elie Wiesel gave the novel was And the World Has Remained Silent. • He wrote this book after 10 years of silence. • By the end of the Holocaust, over 6 million Jews had been killed.

  3. Night Study Guide Notes • There are five motifs to look for while reading Night: • Night – pay attention to what happens at night and what that might symbolize. Remember what we learned when we talked about archetypes and what night might symbolize. • Bearing Witness – Pay attention to which characters are witnesses and to what they bear witness.

  4. Night Study Guide Notes • Motifs (continued): • Father-son Relationships – Pay attention to how Elie and his father’s relationship develops; in addition, notice other father-son relationships in the book. • Loss of faith – Notice how Elie’s faith in God changes as the book progresses. Write on your study guides where these changes occur.

  5. Night Study Guide Notes • Motifs (continued): • Voice vs. Silence – Who has a voice and who chooses to remain silent? Why might Elie Wiesel title his novel what he did originally, and why did he no longer remain silent?

  6. Night Study Guide Notes • In Poland, 90% of the approximately 3,000,000 Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. • As you read, look for times that Wiesel mentions the people in surrounding towns. • There are several groups who contributed to the Holocaust, persecutors and by-standers included. • Why are by-standers just as important as the persecutors?

  7. Characters • Eliezer: the main character, holocaust survivor • Chlomo: Eliezer’s father • Moshe the Beadle: a poor Jew who becomes Eliezer’s teacher in Jewish mysticism; nobody believes his warnings because they think he’s a lunatic

  8. Characters • AkibaDrumer: a Jewish holocaust victim who loses faith in God • Madame Schächter: a Jewish woman who is thought to be crazy because she screams and says she sees furnaces in the distance • Dr. Josef Mengele: the cruel doctor known as the “Angel of Death

  9. Characters • Idek: a prisoner in charge of other prisoners who beats Eliezer out of rage • Hilda -  Eliezer’s oldest sister. • Béa -  Eliezer’s middle sister. • Tzipora -  Eliezer’s youngest sister.

  10. Themes • Faith • Silence • Inhumanity

  11. Symbols • Fire • Night

  12. Vocabulary • The following is a list of words mentioned in the book which may be unknown to you but may help you understand the Jewish culture/religion.

  13. Torah The primary source in the Jewish religion is the Hebrew Bible, consisting of 24 books divided up into 3 sections. The Torah is the first five books of the Bible.

  14. Talmud Next in importance to the Hebrew Bible is the Babylonian Talmud, a collection of early teachings of rabbis from the 5th and 6th centuries.

  15. Cabbala A collection of traditional lore that probes the mysteries of the universe such as angels, death, numerology and human reasoning

  16. Rosh Hashanah Marks the new year of the Jewish calendar. It is both a joyous and a solemn holiday. Many Jews do not work or attend school on this day.

  17. Yom Kippur This is the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. It is the day in which every individual is judged by God and is marked by prayer and repentance.

  18. Passover An 8 day festival commemorating the freeing of the Israelites from Egyptian bondage. There is a ritual feast on the first two nights called Seder and the Passover story is retold. Ritual foods are eaten during these 8 days that are not eaten throughout the rest of the year.

  19. Diaspora Countries outside of Israel inhabited by Jews.

  20. Synagogue House of Jewish worship

  21. Kaddish Jewish prayer for the dead

  22. Rabbi A Jewish teacher

  23. Truncheon club

  24. Assimilation To accept the culture of another group while giving up one’s own culture.

  25. Ghetto A section of the city in which Jews were required to live surrounded by walls.

  26. Genocide The total annihilation of a race or ethnic group.

  27. Holocaust Refers to the destruction of 6 million Jews (and 6 million non-Jews) during 1933-1945. The Greek root means “burnt whole”.

  28. Aryan Race The pure Germanic race, used by the Nazis to suggest a superior, non-Jewish Caucasian typified by height, blonde hair, and blue eyes.

  29. Third Reich The 3rd Republic of Germany which began with Hitler’s rule in 1933 and ended with his defeat in 1945.

  30. SS – Schutz Staffel Established in 1929 as Hitler’s black- shirted bodyguards. They became the elite guards of the Nazis trained in brutality and put in charge of the concentration camps.

  31. Gestapo The secret police organized in 1933 to uncover and undermine political opposition.

  32. The Final Solution The plan devised in 1941 to speed up the killing of Jews and undesirables. This final method used an efficient system of gas chambers and crematories to kill.

  33. Selection A term used when the SS forced prisoners to line up for inspection and decided which prisoners would live and which ones would be killed.

  34. The End

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