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Book · 2012 · Biography & Autobiography

Night

by Elie Wiesel · Recommended by 7 people on 6 podcasts

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By the way, everybody's read Night, which is, you know, tremendous work of of literature.
Emily Jashinsky · Breaking Points · Oct 2025 Listen at 16:23

What they say about it

Grouped from 10 mentions
  • Read in school“made to read Night”
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The best things said about it

3 of 10 · every mention
Recommended
This is a very dark story about his experience in the Holocaust.
Adam Skolnick The Rich Roll Podcast · Nov 2022
Discussed
I had coupled that with Elie Wiesel's Night. And we were going to read them together that week.
Shilo Brooks Honestly with Bari Weiss · Oct 2025
Discussed
It was honors English course and we were made to read Night.
Candace Owens Candace · Jul 2025

Where and when it comes up

Mentions per year

Counted mentions by episode date. Our archive is deeper for recent years; 2026 so far.

How it comes up

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Most mentions, by podcast

6 shows

7 people who brought it up

Most recommendations first

Why people recommend it

Night by Elie Wiesel is a dark and powerful memoir detailing the author's harrowing experiences in the Holocaust. Emily Jashinsky discussed the book on Breaking Points, praising it as a tremendous piece of literature that everyone has read. Adam Skolnick recommended it on The Rich Roll Podcast during a conversation centered on Holocaust literature. David Perell brought up the title on How I Write to create a thematic parallel regarding the moon. On Candace, Candace Owens and Norman Finkelstein talked about the book, touching on historical critiques and controversies surrounding certain scenes described by the author. Candace Owens also referenced Elie Wiesel handing a signed copy of the book to Nicholas Gruner in an episode of The Epstein Files, while offering critiques of specific claims made within the text. Shilo Brooks mentioned on Honestly with Bari Weiss that he paired the book with Karl Marx's The Jewish Question for a seminar reading assignment.

Every mention

10 counted mentions · 4 passing or ad reads below
Adam Skolnick And then there's Elie Wiesel who is, this is a very dark story about his experience in the Holocaust. 1
Recommended
“And then there's Elie Wiesel who is, this is a very dark story about his experience in the Holocaust.”
Emily Jashinsky by the way, everybody's read Night, which is, you know, tremendous work of of literature. 1
Recommended
“by the way, everybody's read Night, which is, you know, tremendous work of of literature.”
Candace Owens You might be familiar with him because he wrote the book Knight and it was proven that he lied about certai… 4
Discussed
“You might be familiar with him because he wrote the book Knight and it was proven that he lied about certain parts of it.”
Discussed
“Ellie then hands him a signed copy of his book. night.”
Critiqued
“Neither was it possible for boys of my age and with a weight of only 25 kilos to chase and to rape German women in Weimar as claimed in night after the continual treatment of broomemide used to minimize our sexual desires.”
Discussed
“It was honors English course and we were made to read Night by Eli Whitel.”
David Perell I think that there's a moment in Night by Elie Wiesel, which is obviously about a completely different subj… 1
Discussed
“I think that there's a moment in Night by Elie Wiesel, which is obviously about a completely different subject, but the Holocaust.”
Heather Morris upon reading that did you start to draw any threads that you hadn't before oh absolutely same with our prem… 1
Discussed
“upon reading that did you start to draw any threads that you hadn't before oh absolutely same with our premier leavey's book too you know night in particular”
Norman Finkelstein He describes some scenes which Raul Hillberg Raul Hberg the person I mentioned uh to you from the person wh… 1
Discussed
“He describes some scenes which Raul Hillberg Raul Hberg the person I mentioned uh to you from the person who defended me and for reasons which still remain except integrity you know which is so rare. He was the chief historian for the Holocaust memorial in Washington. Elie Weisel personally picked him because Weisel knew he knew his stuff. And”
Shilo Brooks One was Karl Marx's The Jewish Question and I had coupled that with Elie Wiesel's Night. And we were going… 1
Discussed
“One was Karl Marx's The Jewish Question and I had coupled that with Elie Wiesel's Night. And we were going to read them together that week and it was the week it just happened to be that week.”

Also mentioned in the same episodes

Other mentions (4: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“I mean, if you guys want to know what they're watching over on Fox, I tweeted this, but literally they had on the son of Ellie Weisel, the guy who wrote Night to the Holocaust survivor to come on and to compare striking Iranian nuclear facilities to bombing Awitz during World War II at the height of the Holoca.”
Passing
“you're just reading night by eli weissel just like oh [ __ ] oh man i gotta”
Passing
“Now Buchanan support for having the president visit Waffan SS Graves brought him into conflict with Ily Wiselle, a Holocaust survivor, author of Knight, and chairman of the US Holocaust Memorial Council.”

Portraits from Wikimedia Commons: Candace Owens, Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).