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Elie Wiesel

Night (Night) Paperback – January 16, 2006

by Elie Wiesel (Author, Preface), Marion Wiesel (Translator)

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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 Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's 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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120 pages
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English
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Hill and Wang
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January 16, 2006
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5.5 x 0.39 x 8.26 inches
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9780374500016
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978-0374500016
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570L
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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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“A slim volume of terrifying power.” ―The New York Times

“Required reading for all of humanity.” ―Oprah

“Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art.” ―Curt Leviant, Saturday Review

“To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a record.” ―Alfred Kazin

“What makes this book so chilling is not the pretense of what happened but a very real description of every thought, fear and the apathetic attitude demonstrated as a response . . . Night, Wiesel's autobiographical masterpiece, is a heartbreaking memoir. Wiesel has taken his painful memories and channeled them into an amazing document which chronicles his most intense emotions every step along the way.” ―Jose Del Real, Anchorage Daily News

“As a human document, Night is almost unbearably painful, and certainly beyond criticism.” ―A. Alvarez, Commentary

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0374500010
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hill and Wang (January 16, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 120 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780374500016
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0374500016
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 570L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.39 x 8.26 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #71 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1 in Jewish Holocaust History
- #1 in Historical European Biographies (Books)
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Amanda Adams

You Simply MUST Read This

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2017

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Every human on this planet should read this book!

It's not very long but it didn't need to be. It is heart wrenching and infuriating and inspiring and about a million other adjectives I could think of... but that's the kind of feeling we need to experience when we're reading about this type of horror. The real life, actual horror people inflict on one another, sick, twisted, wretched, heartbreaking and utterly disgustingness of what Nazi Germany really did.

Elie survived, that in itself is a miracle, that he chose to share that terrible chapter of his life with all of us so that we may learn, that's his gift to us. Don't waste that.

It only takes good men to do nothing for evil to prevail. Keep your eyes open, people.

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MoseyOn

Another Night

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2015

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No one should need an excuse to re-read a book as powerful as Night, but if I needed one, the new(er) translation by the author’s wife provided it. Everything that needs to be said about this book has been said, I suppose, many times over. In its brief, straightforward narrative it captures not just the horror of the attempted extermination of Europe’s Jews, but the destruction that was wrought even in the souls of survivors. Amid all the other losses, including members of his family, the loss that persists through the book, is the narrator-author’s loss of faith, the loss of God. The one thing that might have helped make sense of the grotesque insanity was gone, and with it, a large portion of the previously pious young victim’s self and soul. Remarkably (particularly given how pious the narrator was before being herded in cattle cars with so many others to Auschwitz), the complete loss of a sense of God’s justice did not happen over the course of a long incarceration as he struggled to find meaning in the light of faith. The change was immediate, everything was lost in a day, so brutal, so thorough, was the Nazi violation. How could a just God let this happen?

There are so many memorable scenes in this short book: the journey in the cramped cattle cars; the arrival at the camp; the sight, sound, and ash of the crematorium; the hanging of a child; the crusts of bread; the forced march when the camp was abandoned at war’s end; the gratuitous murders even in a place where gratuitous murder was the organizing principle. And there are so many painful moments, most having to do with loss: the loss of God, the loss of identity, the loss of friends and family, in the end the loss of his father, too, who was his mainstay through most of the ordeal. But there are also moments of remembering that humanity must be preserved. As the camp was being evacuated, the prisoners stopped long enough to clean their prison camp. Why? To let the liberating army know “that here lived men and not pigs.” I was reminded of Italian chemist Primo Levi’s account of his imprisonment in Auschwitz, If This Is a Man, in which he describes the ex-army sergeant who washed daily, even though the water was dirty and he had only his soiled clothes to dry himself with. But he did it, and encouraged others to do the same, for the sake of dignity more than cleanliness, to remain human and to prevent the machine of war, imprisonment, and dehumanization from turning prisoners into beasts, as its masters wished it to do.

This book is a ringing call to remember, and to resist injustice, ignorance, and apathy. As Wiesel said in his speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 (reprinted at the end of this book): “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”

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CHARLES J. PARRY

Poignant and Shocking

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2017

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Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is a short book that includes the narrator’s haunting personal experience with concentration camps during the holocaust. It is a necessary read full of true stories about Wiesel’s time in Nazi concentration camps. Forced out of his home as a teenager, Wiesel traveled with his family to Birkenau. He and his father embarked on the deadly and involuntary journey, moving from one death camp to another. Throughout the book, the author provides numerous anecdotes that provide the reader with an image of what these concentration camps were really like.
This a mature book, but it is definitely a must read for teenagers and adults. The ideas may be a too strong for children or pre-teens. It is poignant and graphic, but gets a clear message across. If you’re looking for short read and have interest in the holocaust and the victims who suffered through it, this is the book for you. I suggest you read through the preface and the forward in the beginning of the book, as well as the author’s note at the end. All in all, this is a great book that will provide you with both information and a saddening perspective of World War II.

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Heather E. Fowler

Powerful. Moving. Beautifully Written. Just Amazing

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2018

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I have read Night several times, and every time I read it I am reminded of why it is such a great book. I picked up some 9th grade English classes this school year and it was on the required reading list. I really looked forward to re-reading it with the students. It was amazing to watch them get drawn into his story. They were shocked at the atrocities that were committed, were able to understand and follow Elie's journey and I had a few say they loved the book or that it was a good read.

It is such a powerful, well-written, and eloquent account of what Elie and so many other Jews went through during the Holocaust. If you haven't read it, it is definitely one that needs to be added to your TBR Bucket List. His use of internal dialogue, first person narrative, and reflection throughout the story pulls the reader in and keeps their attention. You become a witness to what happened. Beautiful. Powerful. Memorable. And one of my absolute favorite books of all time.

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TH1028

An AMAZING book

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2016

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This....I lack words. Mr. Wiesel has woven a tale of such epic proportions, describing in all too vivid detail the horrors of the holocaust. There is a REASON this book ranks up there with The Diary of Anne Frank as one of the definitive works for this subject matter. I was saddened to hear of Mr. Wiesel's passing. When it came time for my son to study the holocaust in school, I decided to add this book to his learning experience. This book captures the gravity of the situation, and explains the horrors, perhaps not adequately, because how could one convey that level of horror to anyone who hasn't lived it, but as well as I think is possible on paper. This is always, ALWAYS my first recommendation when the topic of holocaust literature is broached.

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In a nutshell

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 24, 2019

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This is a short book. It is well written and therefore easy to read. Although seething with emotion, it does not linger or explain. It's a simple testimony of one person's experience of the cruelest genocide in European history from it's beginning to its end.
I would urge everybody to take the time to read this book because the people and ideas who brought about this horror are once more in the ascendant and it falls to us send them back to the shadows where they belong.

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Dr John Campbell

This book should be reprinted for mass free distribution, it is that important.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 19, 2019

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It is tragic that this book exists, it documents a young persons experience of the Nazi holocaust. However, given that these terrible events took place, this book is now essential to the future of humanity. It is a painful read, I had to keep dipping in and out, even although the book is short. The level of depravity it documents, from a first hand eye witness, can only be called evil. Events were witnessed and suffered which could only be believed because they were reported by this reliable, totally credible eye witness. Clearly, a book that should never have needed to be written, but is now essential. How could such events happen in a modern western country? As you can see, Im already lost for words, just get this book and read it.

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Mark Hill

We've learned nothing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 13, 2021

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Excellent first hand description of one of the many grim episodes in recent history.

In western minds the holocaust seems to eclipse the mass murders attributed to Stalin and Mao Zedong (both of whom murdered greater numbers), not to mention the millions who have died due to political mistakes such as the partition of India and the cumulative horrors of nasty little wars in Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Pol Pot's genocide in Cambodia and China's annexation of Tibet and Hong Kong and the incarceration in concentration camps of millions of Uyghurs. Perhaps the atrocities inflicted on the Jews and the author of this book occurred closer to home and have received more attention in movies, news media and books?

Elie Wiesel describes how, in spite of repeated warnings, he and his family simply didn't believe that Jews were being rounded up and exterminated. Even when the Gestapo arrived and began lodging nearby, no one believed that the Germans posed a danger; they were initially charming. Elie and his family ignored rumours about the camps. Even when the family was ordered to leave their home, they rejected offers from an old maid to hide them from the Gestapo. They could never have believed what lay ahead.

While witnessing atrocities inflicted by the Germans on an industrial scale, Elie, a deeply religious man, is forced, time and again, to reconcile his faith with what he was experiencing.

Having read this book, I am surprised how ruthless the current Jews are towards the Palestinians and it is perhaps time that the international community woke up to the ethnic cleansing being perpetrated not only in Israel, but in Xinjiang, China; millions of Uyghurs removed from their homes and taken to concentration camps in the same way that the Gestapo removed Elie and his family from their home.

Elie suggests that it is when people ignore what is happening that events like the holocaust occur.

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Tony Frobisher

Harrowing and Profoundly Disturbing, but Essential

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 28, 2021

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I began reading Night on 27th January, Holocaust Memorial Day. Of all the testimonies I have read, Elie Wiesel's Night, together with Primo Levi's If This Is A Man, have had the most profound impact.
Wiesel conveys the utter helplessness, the brutality and inhumanity of the final solution in a short book. No more words are needed. There is power in every word, every line. How a child could come through this most heinous of times, this darkest of nights and go on to achieve what he did, is remarkable. There are passages that describe certain events in Auschwitz Birkenau that leave you cold. I had to put the book down and reflect. To continue reading at that moment did not seem right. A moment to reflect on the lives lost. But lived Wiesel has ensured will never be forgotten. Every one should read Night.

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Night, reviewed by Tevin Gongo

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2021

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I am not completely sure what I was expecting when I started the book. I heard about the book and decided to give it a go, without any specific goal in my mind.

I found this book really inspiring in the sense that it helps me to put in perspective my own challenges. It is quite difficult to complain about our everyday life challenges when reading about the experience of a young innocent man sent to a concentration camp for no other reason than belonging to a specific community.

The main lesson for me from this book is: "some people have suffered and survived inimaginable pains, whatever challenge you are going through, you have the resources to overcome them".

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