Vocabulary

Here is key vocabulary from //Night// using Prestwick House's Study Guide for //Night//.


 * Chapter 1

billeted:** to be quartered or lodged, especailly in refercene to troops
 * boche:** a derogatory term for German troops
 * firmament**: the expanse of the heavens; the sky
 * ghetto:** An areas of a city which contains and restrics a certain portion of the population. The Jews of various Eastern Euproean cities were forcibly relocated into cordoned-off areas of the city where overcrowding, starvation, and forced labor were the norm. The ghettos were eventually destroyed, as Jews were deported to the death camps.
 * hasidism:** the ultra-orthadox branch of Judaism that teaches the individual to raise every action in life to the level of prayer
 * Kabbalah:** the body of mystical teachings based on esoteric interpretations of ancient Hebrew scriptures
 * Miklos Horthy:** (1868-1957) regent, or ruler, of Hungary from 1920-1944. He initially enacted harsh laws against the Jews of Hungary but later rejected German pressure to deport Jews. Horthy was exiled after Germany took over Hungary.
 * lorry:** a truck
 * Moses Maimonides:** (1135-1204)


 * Chapter 2**


 * Chapter 3**


 * Chapter 4

Aryan Race:** a term that referred to people of Northern European racial background Elisabeth
 * Buna:** operated by I.G. Farben, was one of forced labor camps that were part of Auschwitz III
 * Gallows:** structure used for hangings
 * Himmler, Heinrich:** Nazi Leader, second in command to Hitler


 * Chapter 5

crucible**: a severe test, a trial Tori
 * fortnight**: 14 days
 * mountebank**: clown, jokester
 * monochrome**: in a single color
 * musulmann**: person camp slang for a prisoner who was so weakened he was not expected to live much longer
 * red army**: Soviet Russian army. Russia was one of the Allied powers (Britain, Free France, and the U.S. ) during World War II
 * rosh hashanah**: the Jewish New Year.
 * Yom Kippur**: Day of Atonement

Automatons**- People who act in a mechanical fashion
 * Chapter 6
 * Petrified**-Dried up
 * Stupefied-**Dazed