Approaches to Teaching Wiesel's Night

Author:   Alan Rosen
Publisher:   Modern Language Association of America
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Pages:   175
Publication Date:   01 January 2007
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Elie Wiesel is an internationally known author, human rights advocate, and lecturer. Night, his first book (1956 in Yiddish, 1958 in French, 1960 in English; a new English translation appeared in 2006), has become a classic memoir of a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. The seventeen essays of this volume in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature examine the historical, cultural, and literary contexts of Wiesel’s book as well as strategies for teaching it in the classroom. Part 1, “Materials,” provides resources on the Jewish ghettos and concentration camps of World War II, on the Jewish faith and religious practices, on the genre of victims’ diaries, on the critical reception of Night, on Wiesel’s other work, and on available audiovisual materials. Part 2, “Approaches,” addresses many subjects—among them, Wiesel’s narrative techniques, the representation of Auschwitz, the use of different languages, the comparison of Wiesel with Primo Levi, the problems of memory and bearing witness, the Christian response to the Holocaust, and the challenge of teaching a grim and painful text to students.

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Author:   Alan Rosen
Publisher:   Modern Language Association of America
Imprint:   Modern Language Association of America
Dimensions:   Width: 16.70cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.260kg
ISBN:  

9780873525909


ISBN 10:   0873525906
Pages:   175
Publication Date:   01 January 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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The collection works as a strong departure point, a kind of general guide for looking at ways to approach Night, showing a teacher a full array of approaches for teaching this novel. --Orit Rabkin, University of Oklahoma


Rosen's collection is a valuable source for teachers, providing multiple perspectives and insight into the many levels of interpretation of a seminal Holocaust memoir. --S. Lillian Kremer, author, Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination, and editor, Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work Rosen's collection is a valuable source for teachers, providing multiple perspectives and insight into the many levels of interpretation of a seminal Holocaust memoir. --S. Lillian Kremer, author, Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination, and editor, Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work All the articles are admirably concise, so that one can quickly--and profitably--read through several in the limited time one usually has for class preparation. A marvelously thought-provoking, useful collection. --Shofar The authors speak to us teacher-to-teacher, sharing their classroom experiences and experiments. All the articles are admirably concise, so that one can quickly--and profitably--read through several in the limited time one usually has for class preparation. All in all, this is a marvelously thought-provoking, useful collection. --Richard Middleton-Kaplan, Harper College The collection works as a strong departure point, a kind of general guide for looking at ways to approach Night, showing a teacher a full array of approaches for teaching this novel. --Orit Rabkin, University of Oklahoma


The collection works as a strong departure point, a kind of general guide for looking at ways to approach Night, showing a teacher a full array of approaches for teaching this novel. Orit Rabkin, University of Oklahoma The authors speak to us teacher-to-teacher, sharing their classroom experiences and experiments. All the articles are admirably concise, so that one can quickly and profitably read through several in the limited time one usually has for class preparation. All in all, this is a marvelously thought-provoking, useful collection. Richard Middleton-Kaplan, Harper College Rosen's collection is a valuable source for teachers, providing multiple perspectives and insight into the many levels of interpretation of a seminal Holocaust memoir. S. Lillian Kremer, author, Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination, and editor, Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work All the articles are admirably concise, so that one can quickly and profitably read through several in the limited time one usually has for class preparation. A marvelously thought-provoking, useful collection. Shofar The collection works as a strong departure point, a kind of general guide for looking at ways to approach Night, showing a teacher a full array of approaches for teaching this novel. --Orit Rabkin, University of Oklahoma The authors speak to us teacher-to-teacher, sharing their classroom experiences and experiments. All the articles are admirably concise, so that one can quickly--and profitably--read through several in the limited time one usually has for class preparation. All in all, this is a marvelously thought-provoking, useful collection. --Richard Middleton-Kaplan, Harper College Rosen's collection is a valuable source for teachers, providing multiple perspectives and insight into the many levels of interpretation of a seminal Holocaust memoir. --S. Lillian Kremer, author, Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination, and editor, Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work All the articles are admirably concise, so that one can quickly--and profitably--read through several in the limited time one usually has for class preparation. A marvelously thought-provoking, useful collection. --Shofar


All the articles are admirably concise, so that one can quickly--and profitably--read through several in the limited time one usually has for class preparation. A marvelously thought-provoking, useful collection. --Shofar Rosen's collection is a valuable source for teachers, providing multiple perspectives and insight into the many levels of interpretation of a seminal Holocaust memoir. --S. Lillian Kremer, author, Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination, and editor, Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work The collection works as a strong departure point, a kind of general guide for looking at ways to approach Night, showing a teacher a full array of approaches for teaching this novel. --Orit Rabkin, University of Oklahoma The authors speak to us teacher-to-teacher, sharing their classroom experiences and experiments. All the articles are admirably concise, so that one can quickly--and profitably--read through several in the limited time one usually has for class preparation. All in all, this is a marvelously thought-provoking, useful collection. --Richard Middleton-Kaplan, Harper College


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Alan Rosen was a 2005-06 fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem. His books include Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English and Obliged by Memory: Literature, Ethics, and Religion, edited with Steven Katz. His current project is a book on Holocaust testimony.

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