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Night is the first in a trilogy—Night, Dawn, Day—marking Wiesel's transition during and after the Holocaust from darkness to light, according to the Jewish tradition of beginning a new day at nightfall. "In Night," he said, "I wanted to show the end, the finality of the event. Everything came to an end—man, history, literature, religion, God.
Elie Wiesel is well known for his memoir Night that later spawned the trilogy of which Day is the final book. Wiesel has written more than fifty books and has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Soon after earning the Nobel Prize, Wiesel and his wife Marion founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. Eliezer Wiesel explains, "In Night, it is the 'I ...
Dawn is a novel by Elie Wiesel, published in 1961. It is the second in a trilogy — Night, Dawn, and Day — describing Wiesel's experiences and thoughts during and after the Holocaust. [1] Unlike Night, Dawn is a work of fiction. [2] It tells the story of Elisha, a Holocaust survivor.
The article uses the original English translation of Night by Stella Rodway (Hill & Wang, 1960), reproduced in the 1982 Bantam Books edition. If you are using the translation from the 2006 Oprah Book Club edition, you will find differences in the text and in the way some names are written.
Elie Wiesel described his initial 1947 encounter with Chouchani in Legends of Our Times (Chapter 10). Wiesel writes that Chouchani was "dirty," "hairy," and "ugly," a "vagabond" who accosted and berated him in Paris in 1947 and then became his mentor. Wiesel wrote of him again in his memoir All Rivers Run to the Sea (pp. 121–130). Wiesel ...
The insurgents spend the night together, waiting for the outcome of the negotiation. If the British hang their friend at dawn, one of them will shoot the British officer held as a hostage. Based on the novel by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel , Dawn sheds a new light on a key moment in history that allows us to re-examine the current ...
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné (1980), [1] translated into English as The Testament (1981) [2] is a novel by Elie Wiesel. The Testament, to be followed by The Fifth Son, and The Forgotten mark a thematic change in Elie Wiesel's telling of the Holocaust and its aftermath as Wiesel moves into telling the story of three children of the survivors. [3]
The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry is a 1966 non-fiction book by Elie Wiesel. The book is based on his travels to the Soviet Union during the 1965 High Holidays to report on the condition of Soviet Jewry. [1] The work "called attention to Jews who were being persecuted for their religion and yet barred from emigrating." [2]