Beadle
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A beadle, sometimes spelled bedel, is an official who may usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational or ceremoni
Mr. Bumble, a beadle in Oliver Twist, by 'Kyd' (Joseph Clayton Clarke)
The Parish Beadle by David Wilkie, 1823
The Esquire Bedell of the University of Cambridge, carrying one of the university maces
Ward beadles escorting their Aldermen at the Lord Mayor's Show.
Night (memoir)
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Night is a 1956 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World Wa
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…the term beadle or sexton (in Hebrew: שמש, romanized: shammash) is sometimes used for the gabbai, the caretaker or "man of all work", in a synagogue. Moishe the Beadle, the caretaker of a synagogue in Sighet in the 1940s, is an important character in Night by Elie Wiesel. In the medieval universities, beadles were…
Cover of the first edition
Sighet, Transylvania, now Sighetu Marmației, Romania, 2009
Elie Wiesel, c. 1943, aged 15
Wiesel's father, Chlomo