Night
novel by Wiesel
Also known as: “And the World Has Remained Silent”, “La Nuit”, “Un Di Velt Hot Geshvign”
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discussed in biography
- In Elie Wiesel
…Wiesel’s first book, in Yiddish, Un di velt hot geshvign (1956; “And the World Has Remained Silent”), abridged as La Nuit (1958; Night), a memoir of a young boy’s spiritual reaction to Auschwitz. It is considered by some critics to be the most powerful literary expression of the Holocaust. His…
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post-Holocaust art
- In Holocaust: Artistic responses to the Holocaust
while she did not—Elie Wiesel’s Night (originally in Yiddish, 1956), and works by Primo Levi are some of the most memorable in the field of literature. Paintings and drawings by survivors Samuel Bak, Alice Lok Cahana, and David Olère document the horrors that they experienced in ghettos and death camps.…
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