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Night - English I • • The following are terms and vocabulary related to our study of Night. Refer to this list to help you with your reading. Literary Term Definition 1. memoir motif Theme Dehumanization Narrative based on personal experience or memory 2. A literary genre (category or type of writing) A recurring element (theme, image, word, idea, etc.) in a work of literature or art Examples Night Elie’s changing treatment of certain motifs shows how he himself changes as a result of his experience. For example, night, corpse/body, faith/prayer Definition Stripping away of identity, which is defined as the act of degrading people in order to deprive them of human qualities or attributes. Desensitization to cause someone to be less sensitive ; The mitigation of an individual's emotional response to a distressing stimulus by repeated exposure to or imagination of that stimulus. Terms - Judaism Yiddish Brief definition or explanation Language spoken by European Jews Beadle A person whose task is to maintain order in a synagogue Hasidic Pertaining to one branch of Judaism Kabbalah Talmud Synagogue Rosh Hashanah Zionism Passover rabbi A mystical branch of Judaism Collection of ancient Jewish writings Jewish place of worship The Jewish New Year, celebrated in September The international political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine. The modern state of Israel was established within the country of Palestine in 1947 by the United Nations. A six-day annual observance commemorating the liberation and exodus of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt, as told in the biblical Book of Exodus A Jewish religious teacher Kaddish Yom Kippur Terms and Names The Holocaust The Hebrew prayer for the dead The Jewish Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the year for religious Jews. Those who observe Yom Kippur fast for 25 hours (sundown to sundown the next day) and spend the day in prayer, atoning for their sins. Brief definition or explanation (n.) holocaust – sacrificial offering (to gods or God) consumed by fire Holocaust deport Gestapo SS Holocaust – genocide of the Jews and others in WWII (v.) To forcibly transfer (a person) out of the country Deportation – act of deporting Deportee – someone who is deported Port – to carry Gestapo – Nazi secret police SS – military branch of the Nazi government (n.) Departure from a country (opposite of immigration) emigration ghetto Auschwitz Birkenau Buna Gleiwitz Buchenwald (n.) Ghetto – city in medieval Italy where many Jews settled ghetto – a section of a city where an ethnic or racial group either settles or is isolated Concentration camps crematorium A German SS officer and physician at Auschwitz and Birkenau. He “supervised the selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who was to become a forced laborer,” and performed “human experiments on camp inmates, among whom Mengele was known as the Angel of Death or Beautiful Devil” (source: wikipedia.org) (cremation – burning of corpses) (n.) building where inmates are gassed and cremated Kommando German word for unit or command; the basic unit of organization of forced laborers in the camps; a work unit or work assignment. Dr. Mengele barrack Kapo concentration camp (n.) A building used to house military personnel or, in the camps, the prisoners A prisoner who serves in an administrative position, e.g., overseeing other prisoners A camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. (Source: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) selection The process of separating inmates to be kept alive from inmates to be executed. Many are “selected” for the gas chambers. Blockälteste Lagerälteste Inmates appointed by the SS to supervise fellow inmates The Blockälteste was a “block elder” or “block senior,” in charge of a block, or barrack. The Lagerälteste was the “camp elder” or “camp senior,” in charge of all the inmates in the entire camp.
