TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY MARION WIESEL NEW YORK - Schoolwires

Also by Elie Wiesel

DAWN

THE OSLO ADDRESS

DAY (previously THE ACCIDENT)

TWILIGHT

THE TOWN BEYOND THE WALL

THE SIX DAYS OF DESTRUCTION

THE GATES OF THE FOREST

THE JEWS OF SILENCE

LEGENDS OF OUR TIME

(with Albert Friedlander)

A JOURNEY INTO FAITH

(conversations with John

Cardinal O'Connor)

A BEGGAR IN JERUSALEM

A SONG FOR HOPE (cantata)

ONE GENERATION AFTER

FROM THE KINGDOM OF MEMORY

SOULS ON FIRE

SAGES AND DREAMERS

THE OATH

THE FORGOTTEN

ANI MAAMIN (cantata)

A PASSOVER HAGGADAH (illustrated

ZALMEN, OR THE MADNESS OF GOD

(play)

MESSENGERS OF GOD

A JEW TODAY

FOUR HASIDIC MASTERS

THE TRIAL OF GOD (play)

by Mark Podwal)

ALL RIVERS RUN TO THE SEA

MEMOIR IN TWO VOICES (with

Fran?ois Mitterand)

KING SOLOMON AND HIS MAGIC

RING (illustrated by Mark

Podwal)

THE TESTAMENT

AND THE SEA IS NEVER FULL

FIVE BIBLICAL PORTRAITS

THE JUDGES

SOMEWHERE A MASTER

CONVERSATIONS WITH ELIE

THE GOLEM (illustrated by Mark

Podwal)

WIESEL (with Richard D.

Heffner)

THE FIFTH SON

WISE MEN AND THEIR TALES

AGAINST SILENCE (edited by Irving

THE TIME OF THE UPROOTED

Abrahamson)

Night

ELIE

WIESEL

T R A N S L A T E D FROM THE F R E N C H BY MARION W I E S E L

H I L L A N D WANG

A DIVISION OF FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX

NEW YORK

In memory of

my parents and of my little sister, Tzipora

E.W.

Hill and Wang

A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux

19 Union Square West, New York 10003

Copyright ? 1958 by Les Editions de Minuit

Translation copyright ? 2006 by Marion Wiesel

Preface to the New Translation copyright ? 2006 by Elie Wiesel

Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech copyright ? 1986 by the Nobel Foundation

All rights reserved

Distributed in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre Ltd.

Printed in the United States of America

Published simultaneously in hardcover and paperback by Hill and Wang

First edition of this translation, 2006

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005936797

Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0-374-39997-9

Hardcover ISBN-10:0-374-39997-2

Paperback ISBN-13:9 78-0-3 74-50001-6

Paperback ISBN-10:0-374-50001-0

Designed by Abby Kagan



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This new translation

in memory of

my grandparents, Abba, Sarah and Nachman,

who also vanished into that night

M.W.

Preface to the New Translation

by Elie Wiesel

I

only one book, this would

be the one. Just as the past lingers in the present, all my writings after Night, including those that deal with biblical, Talmudic, or Hasidic themes, profoundly bear its stamp, and cannot

be understood if one has not read this very first of my works.

Why did I write it?

F IN MY L I F E T I M E I WAS TO WRITE

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad

in order to understand the nature of madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience

of mankind?

Was it to leave behind a legacy of words, of memories, to help

prevent history from repeating itself?

Or was it simply to preserve a record of the ordeal I endured as

an adolescent, at an age when one's knowledge of death and evil

should be limited to what one discovers in literature?

There are those who tell me that I survived in order to write

this text. I am not convinced. I don't know how I survived; I was

weak, rather shy; I did nothing to save myself. A miracle? Certainly not. If heaven could or would perform a miracle for me,

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