This glossary & list of characters will be included each week. It might be helpful & useful as you read. Glossary of Terms Night by Elie Wiesel

• Appelplatz: place or area for roll call

• Auschwitz: Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of German Nazi concentration and extermination

camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II

• Beadle: ceremonial officer of a church, college, or similar institution

• Birkenau: one of the camps in Auschwitz, sometimes referred to as Auschwitz II

• Blockälteste: block elder, inmates in charge of a single concentration camp barrack

• Buchenwald: a German Nazi concentration camp established near Weimar, Germany in July, 1937

• Buna: the largest Auschwitz sub-camp

• Fascist Party: Italian political party, created by Benito Mussolini, authoritarian & nationalistic government

• Gestapo: abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei, the Secret State Police of Nazi Germany

• Gypsy: racial slur for Romani people

• Hasidic: from Hasidism, a mystical Jewish movement, refers to deeply observant Jewish practices

• Himmler (Reichsführer): Heinrich Himmler was the head of the SS and a leading member of the Nazi Party

• Jewish Police: auxiliary police units organized within the Jewish ghettos of German-occupied Eastern Europe

by local councils under the ultimate authority of the Nazi occupiers

• Kabbalah: method, discipline, and school of thought that originated in Judaism

• Kaddish: a hymn of praises to God found in the Jewish prayer service

• Kapos: prisoners in Nazi concentration camps assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor or carry out

administrative tasks in the camp

• Kommandos: the basic unit of organization of slave laborers in German concentration camps

• Lagerälteste: implemented camp commandant’s orders, ensured that the camp's daily routines ran smoothly

• Lagerkapo: prisoner serving as head of the camp

• Maimonides: Jewish philosopher and astronomer lived 1135-1204

• Mengele, Josef: an officer & physician in Auschwitz concentration camp responsible for the selection of

victims to be killed in the gas chambers and for performing deadly human experiments on prisoners

• Muselman: deemed unfit to work, a condemned prisoner of a Nazi death camp

• Nyilas: members of the Hungarian Nazi party

• Oberkapo: prisoner assigned as chief foreman

• pipel: among Nazi concentration camp detainees, an attractive male child who received special privileges by

maintaining a relationship with another detainee who had been granted some authority over other detainees

• phylacteries: small leather boxes containing Hebrew texts, worn by Jewish men at prayer

• Raus!: Out!

• rebbe: a rabbi, especially a religious leader of the Hasidic sect

• Red Army: common name for the Russian National Military Forces

• Rosh Hashanah: Jewish New Year

• Shavuot: festival of Shavuot marks the end of the seven-week counting period between Passover and Shavuot

• Shekhinah: the dwelling or settling of the divine presence of God

• shtibl: small house for Jewish prayer

• Sonder-kommando: work units made up of German Nazi death camp prisoners who were forced, on threat of

their own deaths, to aid with the disposal of gas chamber victims during the Holocaust

• SS: Schutzstaffel, paramilitary organization in Nazi Germany

• Stubenälteste: senior member of a block

• Synagogue: building where a Jewish assembly or congregation meets for religious worship and instruction

• Talmud: central text of Rabbinic Judaism

• Yiddish: historic language of Jews of Central & Eastern Europe (this novel was translated from Yiddish)

• Yom Kippur: Day of Atonement, holy day in Judaism, a day to atone for sins of the past year

• Zionism: philosophy which supports Jews adhering to religious Judaism and the return of Jews to Israel as a

means for Jews to be a majority nation in their own state

• Zohar: the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah

Night Characters

1. Moishe the Beadle (p. 3-8) 2. Hilda (p. 4, 8) 3. Bea (p. 4) 4. Tzipora (p. 4, 19) 5. Eliezer 6. Malka (p. 7) 7. Tobie (p. 7) 8. Moishe Chaim Berkowitz (p. 9) 9. Mrs. Kahn (p. 10) 10. Ezra Malik (p. 12) 11. Stern (p. 12, 37) 12. Batia Reich (p. 14) 13. Uncle Mendel (p. 20) 14. Maria (p. 20) 15. Mrs. Schächter (p. 24-28) 16. Béla Katz (p. 35) 17. Yehiel (p. 36) 18. Stein (p. 43-45) 19. Reizel (p. 43-45) 20. Akiba Drumer (p. 45, 51, 76) 21. Hersh Genud (p. 45) 22. Juliek (p. 49, 61-62, 93-95)

23. Louis (p. 49) 24. Hans (p. 49) 25. Franek (p. 49, 55-56) 26. Idek (p. 50, 53, 54, 56-58) 27. Yossi (p. 50, 71-72) 28. Tibi (p. 50, 71-72) 29. Alphonse (p. 51) 30. Zalman (p. 86) 31. Rabbi Eliahu (p. 90-91) 32. Meir Katz (p. 37, 102-103)

After reading pages 29-46 in Night: Respond to one of the four topics below thoughtfully and thoroughly in one structured, professional paragraph. Topic choices:

1. Analyze, “I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother

and Tzipora forever.” (page 29)

2. Evaluate many of the horrors Eliezer encounters when he and his father enter the camp.

3. “… we had ceased to be men.” (page 37) Describe the transformation Elie and the others went through

upon entering the camp.

4. Analyze “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name.” (page 42)

Your paragraphs each week will be scored out of 15 points.

3 points for introduction & thesis 1 point for title & author of book (Night by Elie Wiesel) 6 points for analysis, explanation & examples 2 points for at least one quote from the book 3 points for concluding statement(s)

Please submit your paragraphs to turnitin.com

Here is a sample paragraph. This is the format & style you should strive for. This is an analysis paragraph of All Quiet on the Western Front.

In the first chapter of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the main character Paul is introduced; he is a soldier currently in the war. The war is filled with bittersweet moments and emotions. In the first scene, Paul and his comrades are in the cook-house awaiting to be fed. They realize that there is a surplus of food and become excited. “Tjaden beamed. ‘What a bean-feast! That’s all for us! Each man gets- wait a bit- yes, practically two issues.’” (p. 5) They were well-fed but this was due to a miscalculation by the cook; he had cooked for one-hundred and fifty men, but there were only eighty, a result of their heavy losses on the front line. The men were content to eat, of course, but it was a tragic loss. The next scene in the chapter finds the soldiers at peace doing their business, and the main character observes the beauty of the meadow. “These are wonderfully care-free hours. Over us is the blue sky… around us stretches the flowery meadow.” (p. 9) There are moments of beauty in the war, but there are moments of grief. Later in the chapter, they visit their dying friend, and the main character looks back upon the memories they shared. “Here lies our comrade, Kemmerich, who a little while ago was roasting horse flesh with us and squatting in the shell-holes.” (p. 14) Throughout the first chapter, many events reflect the bittersweet moments of the war when peaceful and good moments come at a devastating cost.

3 examples & analysis (orange, purple, green), intro & conclusion, 3 quotes