With the backdrop of WW II, this first-person narrative begins in 1941 with the introduction of Moshe the Beadle, a lovable, grandfatherly figure who worked at a Hasidic synagogue in the little Transylvanian town of Sighet. Elie Wiesel, the third child and the only son of a cultured, unsentimental, highly esteemed father quickly bonded with Moshe the Beadle as they shared a passionate interest in Jewish mysticism. (read more)