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Night (Oprah's Book Club) |  | Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Hill and Wang
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Pages: 120
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ISBN: 0374500010
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318092
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Publication Date: January 16, 2006
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In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died.
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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 Weisel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in the substantive new preface, Elie Wiesel reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man 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.
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 Should Be Required Reading March 21, 2010
Psychic Philosopher (Oklahoma City, OK United States)
I read this book for a Spirituality & Literature class several years ago. It still haunts me. What struck me when I first read it was that Elie Wiesel used simple language to tell the most heartbreaking and horrifying of stories. No flowery prose or poetic thanksgiving is found within its covers.
As I've thought about this book through the years, I've realized it is a survivor's story told with necessary detachment. This book showed me how completely dehumanizing Nazi concentration camps were. It's one thing to learn about the showers and the ovens and the firing squads in a history book; it's quite another to know a man on his way to the ovens asked his fellow prisoners to say Kaddish for him but was completely forgotten when given extra food was given that evening.
If you are interested in the past, the present, and, most importantly, the future, it's vital you read this book. It will motivate you to ensure murderous dogma never reigns again.
 Absolutely Amazing Story March 21, 2010
bandgeek20
Elie Wiesel's true story of his Holocaust experiences is undoubtedly a profound book. It is a must-read for anyone, especially those with an interest in history. Almost everyone will be impacted by Wiesel's narrative: certain sections have the effect of bringing tears to your eyes while others force you to ponder universal questions. This was required reading for me in high school, and it was one of the few assigned books I actually enjoyed. Is it sad? Yes, but it is well worth it and I think that readers will grow from the experience of reading this selection.
Never Should Anyone Forget March 14, 2010
C. P. Jackson (Fairfax)
Elie Wiesel has not forgotten and through this text he ensures that the rest of us knows what happened - and do not dare to forget. Written in simple prose within a thin volume, "Night" speaks as loudly now for the murdered millions as it did when first published more than 50 years ago. It's a memoir but so much more than a recounting of a single life. The writer is subtle and economic in this tight history of the largest documented mass murder. By limiting full graphic depictions and allowing the imagination to fill in the gaps of conditions in the concentration camps, the reader counts and mourns Wiesel's family and neighbors as if they were our own. So well does he draw us into the scenes that while reading "Night" we smell the crematorium's smoke and feel its heat. Weisel's Noble Peace Prize acceptance speech is at the end of this new translation of "Night." Delivered in 1986, it is the perfect anchor to book. The speech addresses the injustices worldwide that followed the Holocaust and warns against allowing the holocausts that inevitably have come to pass between 1986 and now. "Night" is being read in many colleges. It should be required reading in high schools. Generations across the world should not be allowed to forget.
The Hobo Philosopher March 12, 2010
Richard E. Noble (Florida Panhandle)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Elie Wiesel was a victim of the attempted extermination of the "Jewish Race" by the Nazi German State under the leadership of Adolf Hitler.
Adolf Hitler actually had a bigger plan than the extinction of the "Jewish Race." His larger goal was to eventually rid the world of all inferior breeds and types of people - weather they were members of races or not. He was going to purify humankind of all of its miscreants. The Jews were simply first. He explains these goals in his book Mein Kampf.
It always amazes me that here in the United States there has only been one political party that has ever been outlawed - the Communist Party. As far as I know even today, you can be a member of the Nazi Party but not a member of a Communist Party.
In principle and theory the Nazi Party advocates the extermination of all inferior peoples for the eventual goal of the purification of the species.
The Communist Party in principle and theory (despite the leadership of many misguided brutes and dictators and murderers) has advocated fair treatment for the poor and working class.
In the United States we have outlawed the Communist Party but not the Nazi Party.
Harry Truman in one of his memoirs states that in his opinion Communism was a worse philosophy than Nazism.
To say the least I'm confused.
But "Night" by Elie Wiesel is not a book about Nazism or Communism. It is a book about people and the human race.
The copy of "Night" that I have was previously owned. And the original owner has written several of his comments or questions in the margins.
On page four he writes; Why would you allow yourself to be shipped off? On page seven he writes: Total denial of worsening conditions by the Jews. On page 27 he writes; So many Jews and so few SS. Why don't the Jews just take over? On page 37 he writes: A psychological feeling of depression controlled the Jews. He has other comments but they get fewer and fewer as the book goes on.
What do you think about these questions?
I wonder why this last reader is questioning the behavior of the Jews and not the behavior of the Germans.
There is not one question written in the margins of this little book asking how the German people could do such a thing to any group of people.
Like the battered housewife, everyone asks; Why did you stay with him? Why did you allow him to treat you so?
No one asks: What was wrong with this man?
Is it because we as human beings are so conditioned to abuse and torture and mistreatment in this life that we see nothing unusual about the abuser?
And this brings us to Mr. Elie Wiesel's constant refrain throughout this book; `Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?'
As a philosophical student of the classical problem of the existence or non-existence of God, I find this argument basic. This is the moral argument against the existence of God - How can a moral God create an immoral world?
Leibniz said that because God is good and moral - this is the best of all possible worlds. It must be. God can not make mistakes.
Voltaire wrote Candide as the disbelievers' response to Leibniz.
The believer will say that the evil of the Holocaust was not God's evil but the evil of man - it was created by the German people. This was human evil not Divine evil - as if human nature could somehow be separated from a Divine creation.
Once again we see the victim getting the blame while the abuser is exonerated.
This seems to be the human condition.
To continue with this philosophy of "beating up on the victim," I suppose that the non-believer could say to the believer: Why my friend do you chose to believe in an abusive God?
Books written by Richard Noble - The Hobo Philosopher:
"Hobo-ing America: A Workingman's Tour of the U.S.A.."
"A Summer with Charlie" Salisbury Beach, Lawrence YMCA
"A Little Something: Poetry and Prose
"Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother" Novel - Lawrence, Ma.
"The Eastpointer" Selections from award winning column.
"Noble Notes on Famous Folks" Humor - satire - facts.
"America on Strike" American Labor - History
A Walk Towards Destruction March 11, 2010
Derek Manchette
Some books, it seems, are almost beyond mere review. NIGHT is about Elie Wiesel's time in Nazi concentration camps. Really, what can one add? The description alone says an awful lot. So let us not focus on subject and instead focus on readability.
NIGHT is very readable. It is not, however, a scholarly study. Many other books provide much better detail and history of the Nazi camps designed either to exterminate undesirables outright or, alternatively, work them to death. NIGHT, rather than being scholarly, is personal. It does not bring the concentration camps to life. It brings Elie Wiesel to life as he lived it in those camps and, more ominously, the life he led before them.
That life before heading to the extermination camps is of equal importance to the life in the camps itself. A basic yet terrifying rule of totalitarian ideologies and the political movements that bring them to fruition is that they do not advertise the barbaric methods that will ultimately be employed in order to achieve their ideological goals. Concentration camps were such extreme institutions that, even given the generations of anti-semitism, they seemed beyond belief until it was much too late. Wiesel and his family (and others in his village) were indeed warned as to what was awaiting them. Yet the stories were so far out there, so incomprehensible, that they were scoffed at. That is perhaps the most important lesson of the book.
At a little over 100 pages, NIGHT is actually a bit skimpy in its descriptions. Yet it provides enough. It provides the big pictures - endless work, ravenous hunger, brutality of the guards and other prisoners and, most distressing, the slipping away of one's own humanity as survival becomes so precarious that one's concerns even for loved ones slips away in the face of self-preservation.
Part memorial, part warning, NIGHT was Wiesel's first book. It could have been his last and his reputation would still be significant. It is a dark but worthwhile read about a very dark time.
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