Shabbat Reading: Elie Wiesel's Night

#whatireadovershabbat Elie Wiesel's Night, translated by Marion Wiesel (1956; Hill and Wang, 2006)

Each year that passes puts us at another, slight remove from the genocide that overshadows all Jewish life today. Now more than ever, it’s imperative that we learn and remember. Wiesel published this glimpse into the hell of the past more than sixty years ago. To read Night is to obliterate, for a moment, the distance that holds us apart from the Holocaust. Its rage consumes the intervening years and makes itself ours.