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Essay Archive - Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
The book Night opens in the town of Signet where Elie Wiesel, the
author ,was born . He lived his child hood in the Signet, Transylvania . He
had three sisters Hilda, Bea, and Tzipora. His father was an honored member
of the Jewish community. He was a cultured man concerned about his
community yet, he was not an emotional man. His parents were owners of a
shop and his two oldest sisters worked for his parents. Elie was a school
boy and interested in studying the Zohar “the cabbalistic books, the
secrets of Jewish mysticism”(Wiesel 3). His teacher was a foreigner, Moshe
the Beadle, a “poor barefoot of Signet”(Wiesel 3). He was El....
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