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To the disapproval of his father, Eliezer spends time discussing the Kabbalah with Moshe [a] the Beadle, caretaker of the Hasidic shtiebel (house of prayer). In June 1941 the Hungarian government expelled Jews unable to prove their citizenship. Moshe is crammed onto a cattle train and taken to Poland.
Humorous drawing of a 19th-century beadle with mace (staff), artist unknown, Punch (the British magazine), v. 18, p. 230 (1850). A beadle, sometimes spelled bedel, is an official who may usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational or ceremonial duties on the manor.
"Moshe" is from the original 1960 English translation of Night. Moshe the Beadle is: Moché-le-Bedeau in Elie Wiesel's La Nuit (1958), the French edition from which Night originated; Moshe in Night 1960, 1982; Moshe, Moishele and Moishe in Wiesel's All Rivers Run to the Sea (1995, 2010); Moshe in Elie Wiesel: Conversations (2002); and; Moishe ...
Kevin Systrom (co-founder of Instagram), the BBC, Time, and Life magazine claim the photograph to be the first shared on Instagram, [83] [84] however The Economic Times and The Guardian claim the first photograph posted to the social media to be a picture of San Francisco's South Beach harbor by Mike Krieger, also co-founder.
Crowd of tourists with their phones in hand, taking photos of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa inside the Louvre Museum in Paris, France on June 7, 2024. - Antoine Boureau/Hans Lucas/AFP/Getty Images.
Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki.
"Night" (Mussorgsky song), an 1864 song by composer Mussorgsky "Night" (Rubinstein song), a 1940s song by composer Anton Rubinstein "Night" (Jackie Wilson song), 1960 "Night" (Bruce Springsteen song), from the 1975 album Born to Run
In 1999, for instance, Michael Jackson purchased the best picture Oscar given to producer David O. Selznick for 1939's "Gone With the Wind" at auction for $1.54 million.