Talk:Night (memoir)

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Why does the article say "Moshe the Beadle" and not "Moishe"?

The article uses the original English translation of Night by Stella Rodway (Hill & Wang, 1960), reproduced in the 1982 Bantam Books edition. If you are using the translation from the 2006 Oprah Book Club edition, you will find differences in the text and in the way some names are written.

"Moshe" and "Moishe" are variants from Hebrew and Yiddish of the same name – "Moses" in English. "Moshe" is from the original 1960 English translation of Night.

Moshe the Beadle is:

Moché-le-Bedeau in Elie Wiesel's La Nuit (1958), the French edition from which Night originated;
Moshe in Night 1960, 1982;
Moshe, Moishele and Moishe in Wiesel's All Rivers Run to the Sea (1995, 2010);
Moshe in Elie Wiesel: Conversations (2002); and
Moishe in Night (2006).

Night (memoir) is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on September 6, 2010.

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On 7 November 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved from Night (book) to Night (memoir). The result of the discussion was moved.

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I would like to start converting the short manual refs to {{sfn}} or {{harvnb}}. Per WP:CITEVAR, please let me know if there are objections. SarahSV ^(talk) 16:23, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

sounds like a good idea to me. I have done this as well in the past. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 16:28, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for taking on a largely thankless task.--Quisqualis (talk) 21:43, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 17 May 2020

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Can you please change the Synopsis section title to "Plot"? So that all wikipedia pages have the same layout. Thank you! 95.94.103.176 (talk) 14:40, 17 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. "Plot" seems inappropriate for a book that isn't a work of fiction. RandomCanadian (talk | contribs) 15:24, 17 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This is a really well-developed and well-written article. I can tell much time was put into it. However, I was wondering if the contributors had considered adding a section, or subsection, regarding Night's ban from some Texans schools in the early 2000s. Apparently, it was considered too gory and violent for the children to read about. Just food for thought. Marcoperez2024 (talk) 18:56, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Marcoperez2024, thank you for the kind words about the article and the information about Texas. I'll have a look around for sources, and of course you're welcome to do the same. SarahSV ^(talk) 19:19, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 3 January 2021

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In the section "Auschwitz" it says, "Eliezer and his family are crammed into a closed cattle wagon with 80 others." This would mean his family PLUS 80, which is not true. It was 80 total, including his family, and this is significant because they would be counted, and if any of them were missing they would all be shot "like dogs". It should read something like "Eighty Jews including Eliezer and his family were crammed into a cattle wagon and threatened that they would be shot "like dogs" if there were fewer at their destination." Verteman (talk) 17:04, 3 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I changed the wording, so that it says what you describe (using my own wording).--Quisqualis (talk) 08:07, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 7 November 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. per discussion consensus and WP:INCDAB, which held sway over discussion participants. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Shibbolethink ^(♔ ^♕) 15:40, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Night (book) → Night (memoir) – Ambiguous, we also have Night (novel). In ictu oculi (talk) 14:44, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. Shwcz (talk) 15:53, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nomination and Shwcz. Night (book) is indeed incomplete disambiguation. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 18:39, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:14, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
OpposeThe Reception section explains the difficulty of assigning a genre to the work, hence the decision for the title. Furthermore genre is not assigned in the infobox, discussion can be found here. If further disambiguation is warranted, which personally I don't think is necessary, Night (Wiesel) might be viable, similar to how painting articles are titled, i.e Nativity (Christus). Victoria (tk) 15:38, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The only other book listed on the dab page appears to be Night (O'Brien novel), and Wiesel's book is primary over that one by such a wide margin in terms of both pageviews (just shy of 500-to-1) and long-term significance that I think the WP:INCDAB threshold is met. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:58, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.