Night - Elie Wiesel

Night Elie Wiesel Lit log 2019

try this for next time

https://listenwise.com/teach/lessons/268-elie-wiesels-night

HOTS - Parts and Whole

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Never shall I forget is compared with Emil Zola J'accuse

research Alfred Dryfuss, Emile Zola, Binyamin Herzel !!!

2019 - 2020

STEP 1 --- Pre Reading

The Kaddish Prayer

Written in Aramaic, the Kaddish is the prayer traditionally recited in memory of the dead, although it makes no mention of death.

Classwork:

1. Copy the text in Hebrew to your log.

Listen to the text

https://soundcloud.com/myjewishlearning/mournerskaddish

2. Write an explanation to the prayer in English.

3. Answer: Why is there no mention of death? (http://gg.gg/kaddishfacts)

4. Upload 3 facts about the prayer onto the shared Padlet. (http://gg.gg/kaddish)

5. Copy 5 facts from the shared work on the Padlet to your log.

The Kaddish prayer resources link

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12o2BC_0Uuy4SWjX6JkwXL7QhJWokZkdPtxbMqrd4qtQ/edit?usp=sharing

Short URL

Link to Padlet board

https://padlet.com/myteacherorit/1w29r300v8iq

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2019-2020

STEP 2 ---- Basic Understanding

STEP 3 ----- Analysis and Interpretation

STEP 4 --- Bridging text and context

- Darwin bio / Darwin theory of evolution / social Darwinism / Nazi racist theory

Yad Vashem -

Hungarian Jewry Before and During the Holocaust

World War II - summary of the deadliest conflict in history

Night-Chapter 1

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2017

Famous Speeches: Elie Wiesel's "The Perils of Indifference"

https://newsela.com/articles/speeches-wiesel-indifference/id/16704/#/Quiz

2016 - 2017

Pre Reading

1. Get to know the facts: Watch the following clips and write down 10 facts that you have learned about WW2:

a. Why did WW2 start?

B. Meanwhile in America (before and during the 1930's)

The Great Depression:

http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/amer_hist_present/resources/htmls/animations/ah25_anim_depression.html

http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/videos/1929-stock-market-crash

Hitler's childhood and rise to power

Darwin and social Darwinism:

Root of Nazi ideology

Hitler and Nazi social Darwinism

HISTORY = HIS STORY

Pieces of history - Interesting and important:

British Prime Minister Chamberlain radio speech - The Declaration of War

Sir Winston Churchill - "This was their finest hour" speech

2016 - 2017

Step 2 - Basic Understanding.

Answer the questions in your log.

Chapter 1 - pages 3 -23

1. Describe Moishe the Beadle and his relationship with Elie.

2. Describe Elie’s father (Shlomo) and his relationship with Elie.

3. Describe Elie’s life in 1941 in Sighet.

4. What did Moishe tell the Sighet Jews and how did they react to his story

Chapter 2 - pages 23-28

1. Describe the inhumane conditions on the train.

2. What were the new laws enforced by the germans?

3. Who is Mrs. Schachter? what do you know about her? what did she say or do on the train?

4. How did the other Jews on the train treat Mrs. Schachter?

5. Where did the train arrive at? what did the Jews see when they got to the destination?

Chapter 3 - pages 29-47

1. Upon arrival at Birkenau, what did some of the Jews want to do? Why didn’t they do it?

2. What did Dr. Mengele do?

3. Shlomo, Elie’s father, and other Jews recite the Kaddish, why? How does Elie feel about it?

4. Elie’s swears to never forget (on page 34), never forget what?

5. What was the German’s reaction to the prisoners passing through their villages?

Chapter 4 - pages 47-66

1. What was Elie’s work place in Buna and what were the names of his gang?

2. Why was Elie sent to the dentist?

3. Who comforted Elie after his first beating by Idek?

4. Give one example of how Elie changed during his stay in Buna.

5. What was so horrible at the hanging of the Pipel? What did Eli think of God after that?

Chapter 5 - pages 66-85

1. What happened to Elie on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kipur in 1944?

2. How could one increase his chances to survive a selection?

3 What were the circumstances in which Elie’s father wanted to give him his ‘inheritance’?

4. What happened to Akiba Drumer?

5. Why did the Nazis decide to evacuate the camp?

Chapters 6 & 7 - pages 85-104

1. What happened to the prisoners that could not keep up with the pace on the Death March?

2. Why did Elie not fall asleep in the shed?

3. Who was Rabbi Eliyahu looking for? What did Elie think of this?

4. Once again the prisoners were on a train. Where did they go?

5. Describe one event that happened on the train.

Chapters 8 & 9 - pages 104-115

1. What were Elie’s thoughts regarding his father?

2. What was the final blow which ended Shlomo Wiesel's life?

3. In Buchenwald, in April 1945, what did the Nazis decide to do?

4. Where does the story end?

5. How does the story end?

2016 - 2017

Step 4 - Bridging text and context:

The Kaddish prayer:

1. Summarize 10 facts about the Kaddish from this article:

The Kaddish is a prayer that praises God and expresses a yearning for the establishment of God's kingdom on earth. The emotional reactions inspired by the Kaddish come from the circumstances in which it is said: it is recited at funerals and by mourners, and sons are required to say Kaddish for eleven months after the death of a parent.

The word Kaddish means sanctification, and the prayer is a sanctification of God's name. Kaddish is only said with a minyan (prayer quorum of ten men), since the essence of the Kaddish is public sanctification. The one who says Kaddish always stands. Whether other worshipers sit or stand depends on the congregation. It is customary for all the mourners in the congregation to recite Kaddish in unison. A child under the age of thirteen may say the Mourner's Kaddish if he has lost one of his parents. Most religious authorities allow a daughter to say Kaddish, although she is under no religious obligation to do so. The Mourner's Kaddish is recited for eleven months from the day of the death and also on the yahrzeit (anniversary of a death). A person may say Kaddish not only for parents, but also for a child, brother, or in-law. An adopted son should say it for adoptive parents who raised him.

The first mention of mourners saying Kaddish at the end of the service is in a thirteenth century halakhic writing called the Or Zarua. The Kaddish at the end of the service became designated as Kaddish Yatom or Mourner's Kaddish (literally, "Orphan's Kaddish"). Although Kaddish contains no reference to death, it has become the prayer for mourners. One explanation is that it is an expression of acceptance of Divine judgment and righteousness at a time when a person may easily become bitter and reject God. Another explanation is that by sanctifying God's name in public, the mourners increase the merit of the deceased person. Kaddish is a way in which children can continue to show respect and concern for their parents even after they have died.

The opening words, yitgadal t'yitkadash, were inspired by Ezekiel 38:23 when the prophet envisions a time when God will become great in the eyes of all the nations. The response of the listeners to the first lines of the mourners is a public declaration of the belief that God is great and holy: Yehei Shmei rabba mevorakh l'olam ul'almei almaya . This response is central to the Kaddish and should be said out loud.

The earliest version of Kaddish dates back to the time of the Second Temple. This Kaddish is called the "Half Kaddish." Over time, the custom developed for the chazzan to say the Half Kaddish following the Torah reading. He also says it before the Amidah at mincha, maariv, and musaf.

Kaddish was not originally said by mourners, but rather by the rabbis when they finished giving sermons on Sabbath afternoons and later, when they finished studying a section of midrash or aggada. This practice developed in Babylonia where most people understood only Aramaic and sermons were given in Aramaic. This is why it is currently said in Aramaic. This "Rabbinical Kaddish" (Kaddish d'Rabbanan) is still said after studying midrash or aggada or after reading them as part of the service.

By Talmudic times, it became customary to conclude the prayer service with the Kaddish. A sentence was added (the line beginning titkabel, "let be accepted") that replaces the passage for the rabbis and asks God to accept all prayers that were recited. This Kaddish is called KaddishShalem (Whole or Full Kaddish) and is still said by the chazzan at the end of the service. The full Kaddish includes two sentences, added to the Half Kaddish around the eighth century, that reflect the traditional yearning for peace (Yehei shlomo rabba and Oseh shalom).

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-mourners-kaddish

(2015 - 2016) Basic Understanding quiz

Click here for the quiz (riddle)

https://www.riddle.com/showcase/16948/quiz

Timeline of the Holocaust

Setting the Historical Context for the Novel

Entries in italics refer to events described or alluded to in Night.

http://www.chipublib.org/eventsprog/programs/oboc/02s_night/oboc_02s_history.php

1933

· The Nazi party takes power in Germany. Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor, or prime minister, of Germany.

· The Nazis “temporarily” suspend civil liberties for all citizens. They are never restored.

· The Nazis set up the first concentration camp at Dachau. The first inmates are 200 Communists.

· Books contrary to Nazi beliefs are burned in public.

1934

· Upon President Hindenburg’s death, Hitler combines the positions of chancellor and president to become “Fuhrer,” or leader, of Germany.

1935

· Jews in Germany are deprived of citizenship and other fundamental rights. The Nazis intensify persecution of political dissidents and others considered “racially inferior” including “Gypsies,” Jehovah’s Witnesses and homosexuals. Many are sent to concentration camps.

1936

· The Olympic games are held in Germany; signs barring Jews from public places are removed until the event is over.

1938

· German troops annex Austria. Nazi gangs physically attack Jews throughout Germany and Austria, on Kristallnacht (the “Night of Broken Glass”).

1939

· In March, Germany takes over a neighboring nation, Czechoslovakia.

· On September 1, Germany invades Poland.

· World War II begins in Europe.

· Hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled in Germany and Austria.

· Polish Jews are ordered to register and relocate. They also are required to wear armbands or yellow stars.

1940

· Nazis begin deporting German Jews to Poland.

· Jews are forced into ghettos.

· Germany conquers one nation after another in Western Europe including the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg and France.

· With Germany’s backing, Hungary annexes parts of Romania, including Sighet and other towns in northern Transylvania.

1941

· Germany attacks the Soviet Union.

· Jews throughout Europe are forced into ghettos and internment camps.

· Mobile killing units begin the systematic slaughter of Jews. In two days, units murder 33,771 Ukrainian Jews at Babi Yar—the largest single massacre of the Holocaust.

· Hungary deports 17,000 foreign and “stateless” Jews. Several thousand are used as slave laborers. The Nazis massacre the rest.

· The first death camp at Chelmno in Poland begins operations.

· Germany, as an ally of Japan, declares war on the United States immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

1942

· At the Wannsee Conference, Nazi officials present the “Final Solution”—their plan to kill all European Jews—to the bureaucracy.

· Five more death camps begin operation in Poland: Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec and Auschwitz-Birkenau.

· March: About 20 to 25 percent of the Jews who would die in the Holocaust have already perished. The ghettos of Eastern Europe are emptied as thousands of Jews are shipped to death camps.

· The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union acknowledge that Germans were systematically murdering the Jews of Europe.

1943

· February: About 80 to 85 percent of the Jews who would die in the Holocaust have already perished.

· April: Jews in Poland’s Warsaw Ghetto strike back as the Nazis begin new rounds of deportations. It takes nearly a month for the Nazis to put down the uprising.

1944

· March: Hitler occupies Hungary; by June, the Germans are deporting 12,000 Hungarian Jews a day to Auschwitz.

1945

· January: As the Russian army pushes west, the Nazis begin to evacuate death camps, including Auschwitz.

· April: American forces liberate the prisoners in Buchenwald.

· May: World War II ends in Europe with Hitler’s defeat.

· About one-third of all the Jews in the world have been murdered and the survivors are homeless.

1946

· An International Military Tribunal created by Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union tries Nazi leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Nuremberg.

Elie Wiesel biography

SYNOPSIS

Born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Transylvania (later Romania), Elie Wiesel pursued Jewish religious studies before his family was forced to relocate to Nazi death camps during WWII. Wiesel survived, and later wrote the internationally acclaimed memoir Night. He has also penned many books and become an activist, orator and teacher, speaking out against persecution and injustice across the globe.

EARLY LIFE

Elie Wiesel was born Eliezer Wiesel on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Transylvania, which would later become Romania. Wiesel, who grew up with three sisters and pursued religious studies at a nearby yeshiva, was influenced by the traditional spiritual beliefs of his grandfather and mother, as well as his father's liberal expressions of Judaism.

SURVIVING THE HOLOCAUST

In 1944, Nazi Germany forced Jews who resided in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania to relocate to labor and death camps in Poland. At the age of 15, Wiesel and his entire family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the Holocaust, which took the lives of more than 6 million Jews. Wiesel lived in the camps under deplorable, inhumane conditions, gradually starving, and was ultimately freed from Buchenwald in 1945. Of his relatives, only he and two of his sisters survived.

Wiesel went on to study at the Sorbonne in France from 1948-51 and took up journalism, writing for French and Israeli publications. His friend and colleague François Mauriac encouraged him to write about his experiences in the camps; Wiesel would publish in Yiddish the memoir And the World Would Remain Silent in 1956. The book was shortened and published in France asLa Nuit, and as Night for English readers in 1960. The memoir became an acclaimed bestseller, translated into many languages, and is considered a seminal work on the terrors of the Holocaust. Night was followed by two novels, Dawn (1961) and Day(1962), to form a trilogy that looked closely at humankind’s destructive treatment of one another.

WRITER AND WORLD ACTIVIST

Wiesel went on to write dozens of books, including the novels Town of Luck (1962), The Gates of the Forest (1966) and The Oath (1973), and such nonfiction works as Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters (1982) and the memoirAll Rivers Run to the Sea (1995). Wiesel has also become a revered international activist, orator and figure of peace over the years, speaking out against injustices perpetrated in an array of countries, including South Africa, Bosnia, Cambodia and Rwanda. In 1978, Wiesel was appointed chair of the President's Commission on the Holocaust by President Jimmy Carter. Additionally, he has been honored across the world with a number of awards, including the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor's Grand Croix.

Teaching is another passion of Wiesel's, having been appointed in the mid-1970s as Boston University's Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities. He has also taught Judaic studies at the City University of New York, and served as a visiting scholar at Yale.

Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, and later founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity with his wife Marion (Erster Rose) Wiesel.

How to Cite this Page:

Eliezer Wiesel

APA Style

Eliezer Wiesel. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 04:34, Aug 11, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/elie-wiesel-9530714.

4. Bridging text and context:

2017

Liberation of Buchenwald !!!! תמונות קשות לצפייה !!!!