Night by Elie Wiesel: Moshe the Beadle

The caretaker of the synagogue.

He is poor and lived in penury; he was the only poor person people liked because he stayed out of the way; awkward and strange.

Very religious, observant, studied Talmud.

<p>Cultured and wise; the community holds him in high regard and seeks his input in social/private matters; runs a grocery store; unemotional.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He is too young and he must understand the basics first, studying the Talmud and the Torah.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Elie learns that Moshe the Beadle is a Master of the Kabbalah and he becomes Elie Wiesel's teacher.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet, deported on a train originally to Galicia.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He and the other foreign Jews had been taken by train through Hungary and into Poland. They were taken to a forest and made to dig graves. Then the Gestapo killed them. Moshe escaped because he had been mistaken for dead, although he was just wounded. He said he returned to tell the Jews to prepare themselves before it was too late.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was wounded (shot in the leg) and left for dead.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No more joy or religious expression; didn't sing anymore.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Other people in the village refused to believe or listen to Moshe.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They couldn't believe such horrible things could happen.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Optimistic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Irony.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It was reassuring and calm. The Germans seemed nice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The facade that the Germans had disappeared.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They started to take over and arrested Jewish leaders.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He said that it wasn't lethal. However, it singled out the Jews to be killed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They started putting Jews in ghettos; Jews were concentrated then confined in the ghettos.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They tried to lead normal lives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They divided the Ghetto Jews into two groups. The first group was sent by train in cattle cars to an unknown destination, to work in camps. The second group, which Elie's family belonged to, was removed to the Small Ghetto.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They needed something to keep them going and didn't want to believe their lives were in danger.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'Under a blazing sun', 'a summer sun', 'the heat was oppressive' - the imagery of the sun is a metaphor for the brutality of the German Nazi regime.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No more optimism, hope burned out, dying, darkness both physically and in spirit. It is also a metaphor that the Jews of Sighet are about to enter the darkest period of their lives, a long night for the Jewish people as a whole.</p> Signup and view all the answers