y written in Yiddish and published in Buenos Aires, Argentina but after two years, it appeared again in a compressed (127 page) French version called La Nuit (Night). In 1956 Elie was hit by a taxi in New York and confined to a wheel chair for almost a year. He applied for American citizenship and after recovering from his injuries, continued to live in New York as a feature writer for a Yiddish-language newspaper called the Jewish Daily Forward. Elie Wiesel has lectured at colleges around the country a
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