The Trial of God is an historical fiction set in mid-seventeenth century Ukraine,

God on Trial

Elie Wiesel’s play The Trial of God is an historical fiction set in mid-seventeenth century Ukraine, but is based on actual events he witnessed as a child in Auschwitz in the 1940s, when three rabbis put God on trial for crimes against the human race.

Why did he choose to treat this incident the way he did, by setting it back almost 300 years in time?

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