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	Night (Oprah's Book Club) Elie Wiesel Hill and Wang, 2006 - 120 pages average customer review:based on 628 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Powerful and inspiring

Wiesel's powerful tale is that much more effective for its harsh glare of reality. And yet, he could have been much more graphic, without going over the top. His descriptions are inescapably matter-of-fact, sheltered within a lurid universe. Wiesel lives in a society gone mad with a terrifying hubris that nurtures mass murder. What can one say about a culture that averts its gaze while gassing millions of "undesirable" groups? Wiesel marches steadfastly through layers of degridation, humiliation and becomes a non-person. The world should read this and behold a pattern of life to avoid. Night can and must make all of us better people.

Reading about the Holocaust is difficult at best. We cringe in the terror of mankind's worst events. Wiesel's timeless, terrifying memories will now always be with us. But, will the memories change us? Perhaps our best hope is that Holocaust readers will become incerasingly aware of the fact that genocide continues in the present. As if we learned nothing from the Holocaust, we were forced to see it again in Cambodia, Rawanda and Darfur. Perhaps more needs to be done to educate young people about the horrors of genicide, least Wiesel's tragedy go unnoticed. That would be the greatest tragedy of all.

Chuck (Ohio)

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Couldn't put it down...

Amazing and detailed read. This book will bring tears to your eyes. I hightly recommend it. It shows the horror behind the holocaust.

Elie Wiesel is atrue voice of truth and conscience

Night by Elie Wiesel is not only one of the definitve works on Holocaust literature, it is one of the most definitve works on humanity.
This is a factual record of Wiesel's experiences from 1941, when the author was 12 years old, dedicated to learning Talmud and thirsting to learn Kaballah, to his experiences after Jews were forced into ghettoes and then transported to the death camps.
Written in Yiddish in 1958 and translated into English in 1960.
It is a record of Wiesel's childhood in the death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. It is dedicated to the memory of Wiesel's parents and his little sister Tzipora who were cruelly murdered in the Nazi inferno.
The book is stark in it's record of everything seen by the author and asks many questions for which answers are difficult to find.
It tells of the vow of Wiesel and a friend in the camp to emigrate to the Land of Israel if they survived, a dream shared by millions who died in and lived through the Shoah.
Perhaps the most horrifying and moving account in the book is when the author reveals how during the first night in Auschwitz, he and his father wait in line to be thrown into a firepit. He watches a lorry draw up beside the pit and deliver its load of children into the fire. While his father recites the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead.
" Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.
Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.
Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never".
Elie Wiesel has been a voice of conscience in the world ever since this book became known.
He has penned various other bestsellers. His Elie Wiesel Foundation For Human Rights has done valuable work in this field for many years.
In a plea for the plight of his own people today, especially the youth and children of Israel today targeted by terror and forces of genocide (such as Hamas, Hezbollah and the Ahmadinejad regime- as well as all who are sympathetic to these anti-Jewish elements) he penned an open letter to President Bush stating: "Please remember that the maps on Arafat's uniform and in Palestinian children's textbooks show a Palestine encompassing not only all of the West Bank but all of Israel, while Palestinian leaders loudly proclaim that 'Palestine extends from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, from Rosh Hanikra (in the North) to Rafah (in Gaza). Please remember Danielle Shefi, a little girl in Israel. Danielle was five. When the murderers came, she hid under her bed. Palestinian gunmen found and killed her anyway. Think of all the other victims of terror in the Holy Land. With rare exceptions, the targets were young people, children and families. Please remember that Israel--having lost too many sons and daughters, mothers and fathers--desperately wants peace. It has learned to trust its enemies' threats more than the empty promises of 'neutral' governments".

Elie Wiesel is atrue voice of truth and conscience.

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Great Read

This book is a great one. Wiesel really captures you in his life at the time which is kind of scary. It is almost like you are there with him in his life when you are reading it. The only thing I didn't care for is that I had to read it in a class that the book was kind of irrelevent to the class. In other words in this class we should not be studying the holocaust but we are.

excellent

This book was an excellent book, easy to read and really touches your heart. I will definitely be reading Mr. Wiesel's other works.

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