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Night

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    1. Night By Elie Wiesel

    2. Setting Hungary, Poland, Germany 1941-45

    3. Setting Buchenwald Auschwitz

    7. Author Elie Wiesel Jewish ancestry Concentration camp survivor

    8. Author Elie Wiesel – a writer Five Novels 3 major plays: Zalmon, The Madness of God, and The Trials of God Numerous other works

    9. Night Subjective – recounts the concentration camps from a personal perspective Focus on Wiesel’s memories Facts and feelings are combined

    11. Night Issues and Themes Cruelty of man – how much evil are humans capable of? Indifference of God – why doesn’t an all-powerful God prevent evil and pain?

    12. Vocabulary Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year’s Day Observed in the months of either September or October (depending on the year)

    13. Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur “Day of Atonement” Religious festival celebrating Jahweh’s forgiveness for sins September-October

    14. Passover – Holiday celebrating the Jews’ liberation from Egypt March-April

    15. Pentecost 50 days after Passover

    16. Torah The first five books of the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible) Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

    17. Talmud Writings of famous Rabbis on religious subjects

    18. Cabbala Mystical, secret knowledge of the Torah and Talmud Teaching that the Torah has secret or hidden messages

    19. Zion Jerusalem A Zionist is a person who desires to travel and live in Jerusalem

    20. Synagogue A Jewish place of worship

    21. Kaddish Hebrew Death Prayer Similar to the Last Rites of Catholicism

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