what was the boy's name in night by elie wiesel
Night (book) Night opens in Sighet in 1941. The book's narrator is Eliezer, an Orthodox Jewish teenager who studies the Talmud by day, and by night "weep[s] over the destruction of the Temple". To the disapproval of his father, Eliezer spends time discussing the Kabbalah with Moshe[n 1] the Beadle, caretaker of the Hasidic shtiebel (house of prayer).