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Night (Oprah's Book Club) (平装)
by Elie Wiesel
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Memoir, World War II, Holocaust |
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| MSL Pointer Review:
Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, Night is a powerfully sad and moving firsthand account of the Holocaust and a personal saga of survival against all odds. |
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Alfred Kazin (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-18 00:00>
No one has left behind him so moving a record. |
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The New York Times (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-18 00:00>
A slim volume of terrifying power. |
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Oprah Winfrey (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-18 00:00>
I gain courage from his courage. |
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Andrew McCullough (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-18 00:00>
Powerful, Powerful firsthand account of the Holocaust. Sad, poignant, bitter are words that come to my mind. And yet in reality my feeling after reading this is undefinable. It's incomprehensible that human beings would treat others so inhumanely. This period in our history is deeply troubling but even more heartbreaking (can it be more?) given the personal face of the author. A lot of books are given the title 'must-read'. But every person on the planet must read this book so we do not forget, so we do not think it is over exaggerated, so we do not let history repeat itself. My fear is we will forget and present events show us we are still capble of these unspeakable acts.
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Bobby (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-18 00:00>
Elie Wiesel is able to articulate in a clear, understandable manner, what it really was like living during the Holocaust. By telling what his day to day existance was leading up to and then in concentration camps, you can relate to what he endured. It is easier to comprehend what occurred by seeing it through the eyes of one person and then multiplying it by millions of human beings who suffered in the same circumstances. It reminds me of the impact of The Diary of Anne Frank in being able to relate to this one girl and then realize she was one of millions. The book is a fast, easy read but contains so much. It is heart wrenching actual history that should never be allowed to happen again to anyone. It should be required reading for every high school student not only in the United States, but in the world.
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Fern Sidman (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-18 00:00>
Elie Wiesel's book, Night was one of the first books I had read on the Holocaust when I was in high school back in the mid 1970s. His painful and searing account of the unspeakable horror, known as the Holocaust is the single most defining event of the 20th century.
The lessons of Night are as relevant today as they were when the Holocaust occurred and will be relevant as long as the world continues to exist. Within the hearts of mankind is both good and evil, love and hate and as long as hatred and evil can stir the hearts of men to commit such atrocities and engage in such barbaric tortures and mass murders then the lessons of Night will never be obsolete or outdated.
It is incumbent on all those who have learned the lessons of Night to speak out against all injustices and hatred aimed at specific groups of people. I live amongst many Holocaust survivors, and the prevailing sentiment is that silence equals death. Had more people had the courage to actively oppose Hitler and pressure the free world to do so, perhaps the course of history would have been irrevocably changed.
There are others who are devoutly observant Orthodox Jews, whose faith never dimmed during those nightmare years and credit their survival to the hand of G-d. Their view is that anti-semitism is a permanent part of and endemic to our society as it has been since time immemorial and no efforts towards stemming this insidious evil would have helped. There is no question that this view also has a great deal of validity and credibility as well in our times.
This of course does not release us from the obligation to fight evil and hatred. For in the end, it is we who will suffer for not speaking out when we could and it is we who will suffer for not exhausting every effort to thwart movements predicated on mass extermination of any segment of our society.
For those who believe in a Higher Power, we must believe that there will be an accounting and reckoning of our deeds and misdeeds on this earth and we will be asked by the Heavenly Court where we were and what we did to prevent the shedding of innocent blood. Their are sins of commission and sins of omission, to which we are held equally responsible. Apathy and fear and reluctance to act are not valid excuses. Let us not be guility of remaining silent and feigning ignorance when we have the ability to voice our outrage and indignation at those who would destroy our brothers and sisters.
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Joan Frank (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-18 00:00>
Because Elie Wiesel was 15 years old when he entered a concentration camp with his family, his account offers us a view that is unique and free of adult presumptions. Before the arrest and transport of Elie's family (father, mother, 3 sisters and Elie), Wiesel was maturing and finding his place in an observant Jewish community. He was idealistic and hopeful.
As a result, his memory of the year that he spent in concentration camps before liberation by the Allies is described without distortion of a political, or otherwise jaded, lense. He tells about the daily experiences without superimposing motivations when he did not know them. He does not analyze or provide subjective explanations. He simply lays out the horror and his reactions.
Thus, he believably gives readers the opportunity to see for themselves this - most hideous - part of the world's history. He asks questions that we can contemplate, but he does not provide answers that cannot be known. Where is God in the midst of suffering? What are the limits of faith and selflessness? When can we do nothing but strive for self-preservation?
This is a seemingly objective and well-written account of life in a very important place and time. A must read for anyone who wants to put some historical and psychological perspective into their world view.
Highly recommended!
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Lynn Hoffman (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-18 00:00>
Night, as most of you know by now, is the story of a youth that is lived during the Holocaust. It begins with the description of a thirteen year old's spiritual innocence. The boy, Elie is the author and he writes at a twenty-year remove from the experiences that he retells.
You probably know the story: it has been recounted in a hundred different settings. First some of the Jews are rounded up to be shot in the forest. Then the freedom of the remaining ones is restricted. The rumors and eyewitness accounts begin to circulate back to the Jews of this town or that, but no one believes them. Then more are taken-this time to centralized death camps- and for most of those who are transported, there is nothing but unspeakable cruelty and death.
At the beginning of his story, Elie Wiesel tells us what his teacher told him: Every question possesses a power that is lost in the answer. Wiesel is one of the few survivors of Auschwitz and Birkenau and his questions are: 'where was God' and 'for what purpose did I survive?'
The second question is answered in part in the sequel to Night, the claustrophobic Dawn. The first question is answered slowly in Night itself: God was there in the suffering.
Business has taken me to eastern europe several times in the last couple of years. Somehow, I find myself drawn to the synagogues that remain intact in Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Pecs. They are now 'centers of Jewish culture' or 'museums of Jewish life', relics of Judaism with no Jews alive anywhere near them.I understand that there is even a museum at Berchtesgaden and I plan to visit it too.
Most of these places are cleaned-up and have the feel of a Williamsburg or a Venice. They look like parts of a world that stood still while everything else moved on. That is, of course, a lie. They are feeble witnesses to the planned murder of the men, women and children who lived in them. But the buildings have no voices and the story, particularly today, is heard less and less.
Night is the voice of those people, the story that should be playing from those buildings and the source of questions that need to be asked again. |
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