Introduction
With the encouragement of Francois Mauriac, Elie Wiesel broke his silence on the horror of the Holocaust to produce an 800-page memoir entitled, Un di […]
Month: December 2008
Eliezer Wiesel
No other individual is so identified with the Holocaust-its memory and its prevention-as Wiesel. He was born in 1928 in Sighet, Romania, to Shlomo (a […]
Plot Summary
A Sighet Night opens with a description of Moshe the Beadle, a poor Jew in Sighet, who is teaching Jewish mysticism to young Eliezer. After […]
Characters
A Alphonse In the concentration camps, the best heads of the block to be under are Jews. When Elie is transferred to the musicians’ block […]
Themes
A Death “Someone began to recite the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I do not know if it has ever happened before, in the […]
Construction
A Narrative The novella is a short piece of fiction that is based on the author’s 800-page memoir of his time in the Nazi death […]
Historical Perspective
A The Eisenhower Years Eisenhower was re-elected in 1956 to continue his leadership of an America that had emerged literally overnight as the most awesome […]
Compare and Contrast
1956: The Holocaust, outside of Israel, is not discussed. The nearest approach is the reworking of Anne Frank’s story for the stage. Today: Ignoring the […]
About the Author
The image that emerges from Richard Wright’s collection of autobiographical short stories, Uncle Tom’s Children, is that of a lonely and troubled childhood. Born September […]