Downing, F: Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel: A Religious Biography argues that Wiesel's religious faith is the driving force behind Wiesel's status as a moral authority that he is essentially a generative religious personality, a poet-prophet who deepened his own particular Jewish vision to eventually become a link with humanity. As a religious genius and spiritual innovator of the post-modern era, Wiesel is a conflicted individual who joins his own personal and existential struggle for meaning and identity with the quest of the oppressed after the Holocaust.