Directions Please follow along and fill in the blanks on your handout Major Themes Elies struggle to maintain faith in a good benevolent God Silence 2 types Gods Silence AND silence of prisoners ID: 648272
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Jewish Terms Presentation
Directions: Please follow along and fill in the blanks on your handout.Slide2
Major Themes
Elie’s
struggle to maintain faith
in a good- benevolent God.
Silence (2 types-
God’s Silence AND silence of prisoners
).
Inhumanity toward
o
ther
h
umans
.
The Importance (or sacrifice)of
parent-child bonds
.
Tradition.
Religious Observance.Slide3
Night
: Tone
Tone
Eliezer’s perspective is limited to his own experience, and the tone of Night is therefore intensely personal, subjective, and intimate. Night is not meant to be an all-encompassing discourse on the experience of the Holocaust; instead, it depicts the extraordinarily personal and painful experiences of a single victim.Slide4
Night: Setting
setting (time)
· 1941–1945, during World War II
settings (place)
Eliezer’s story begins in
Sighet
, Transylvania
(now part of Romania; during Wiesel’s childhood, part of Hungary)
The book then follows his journey through several concentration camps in Europe:
Auschwitz/
Birkenau
(in a part of modern-day Poland that had been annexed by Germany in 1939)
Buna (a camp that was part of the Auschwitz complex)
Gleiwitz
(also in Poland but annexed by Germany)
Buchenwald (Germany)Slide5
Night
Study Guide Notes
There are five
motifs
to look for while reading
Night
:
motifs (a recurring subject, theme, or idea)
Night
– pay attention to what happens at night and what that might symbolize.
Bearing Witness
– Pay attention to which characters are witnesses and to what they bear witness.Slide6
Night
Study Guide Notes
Motifs (continued):
Father-son Relationships
– Pay attention to how
Elie
and his father’s relationship develops; in addition, notice other father-son relationships in the book.
Loss of Faith
– Notice how
Elie’s
faith in God changes as the book progresses. Write on your study guides where these changes occur.Slide7
Night
Study Guide Notes
Motifs (continued):
Voice vs. Silence
– Who has a voice and who chooses to remain silent? Why might
Elie
Wiesel title his novel what he did originally (
And the World Has Remained Silent
)
, and why did he no longer remain silent?
Click here to listen to
Elie
Wiesel's "A God who Remembers"Slide8
Two Symbols:
Fire
Night Slide9
A Guide to Jewish References in
Night
Beadle
—a
caretaker or “man of all work”
in a synagogue. (page 1)
Cabbala
—Jewish
mysticism
. Followers believe that every aspect of the Torah has hidden meanings that link the spiritual world to everyday life. Slide10
A Guide to Jewish References in
Night
Hasidism
—a Jewish
reform movement
inspired by the cabbala that spread through Eastern Europe in the 1700s. For Hasidic Jews, the divine presence
is everywhere
, in everything. Slide11
A Guide to Jewish References in
Night
Passover
—a Jewish holiday that is celebrated for
eight days each spring
to recall the Exodus of the Jewish people from
Egypt where they were held in slavery.
(page 8)
Pentecost
—the Jewish holiday that commemorates the revelation of the Law on Mount Sinai. Called
Shavuot
in Hebrew, it is celebrated about seven weeks after Passover. (page 10) Slide12
A Guide to Jewish References in
Night
Synagogue
—a Jewish
house of prayer
. (page 1)
Talmud
—from a word that means
study or learning
. A collection of teachings and commentaries on the Torah, the Five Books of Moses. (page 1)
Temple, The
—a reference to the Temple in Jerusalem, which the Romans destroyed in 70
A.D. It was the center of Jewish worship in ancient times. Today Jews recall its destruction in their daily prayers. (page 1) Slide13
A Guide to Jewish References in
Night
Zionism
—the belief that Jews must once more
become a nation with a land of their own in Palestine.
A commitment to Zionism led a number of European Jews to settle in Palestine in the early 1900s. (page 6) Slide14
Terms you will encounter often
Auschwitz-
Birkenau
—established in 1940 as a concentration camp,
a killing center
was added in 1942 at
Birkenau
. Also part of the huge camp complex was
a slave labor camp
known as Buna-
Monowitz
.
Concentration camp
—a
prison camp
in which individuals are held without regard for accepted rules of arrest and detention. Slide15
Terms you will encounter often
Death camp
—a camp where the Nazis murdered people in assembly-line style. The largest death camp was Auschwitz-
Birkenau
.
Kapo
—a prisoner
forced to oversee other prisoners
.
Mengele, Josef (1911–1979)
—
senior SS physician
at Auschwitz-
Birkenau
from 1943–1944. He carried out “selections” of prisoners upon their arrival at the camp and conducted experiments on some of those prisoners. Slide16
Terms you will encounter often
“Selection”
—the process the Nazis used to separate those prisoners who would be assigned
to forced labor from those who were to be killed immediately.
SS
—in German,
Schutzstaffel
; the elite guard of Nazi Germany. It provided staff for the police, camp guards, and military units within the German army.