ABSTRACT
This essay explores what writing in exile meant for Elie Wiesel. From the enormous challenge to traditional faith in Night to his emphasis on the human role in redemption in The Time of the Uprooted, Wiesel sought to transform exile into a kingdom. Exile meant both faith and doubt. His singular theological achievement was the question, “What about God in all this?” Doubting God’s justice, however, never entailed doubting the deity’s existence. Wiesel’s signature phrase, “And yet,” meant that despite having every reason to despair, the dialogical door between man and man and man and God remains open.
