| Summary: | The proposed paper will begin by looking at the father–son relationship in Elie Wiesel’s <i>Night.</i> I will then briefly note the father–child relationship between God and Israel in the prophets of the Hebrew Bible. I will link the two challenges evident in Wiesel’s <i>Night</i> and in his continuing thought after the Shoah—the loss of family and the loss of God, his faith and/or his understanding of God—and note how these affect one another. After further assessing Wiesel’s father imagery in <i>Night,</i> I will note how Wiesel’s story, eventually making its way into the current version of <i>Night</i>, played a critical role in affecting the thought of Christian leaders and post-Holocaust Jewish–Christian reconciliation efforts.
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