SYDNEY (JTA) – Like Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel ... 1947 in his native Italian. It took Wiesel until the mid-1950s to complete his first version of “Night,” which was published in Yiddish.

Subjected to the satanic testing of a Job, he responded not with the cynicism of Ecclesiastes (though he paradoxically takes the title of his memoir ... was with Elie Wiesel on the night that ...

Elie Wiesel, trans. from the French by Catherine Temerson. Knopf, $25.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-307-59958-2 A provocative “what-if” premise propels Nobel laureate Wiesel’s (Night) latest novel.