Elie Wiesel: Humanist Messenger for Peace is part-biography and part-moral history of the intellectual and spiritual journey of Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, human rights activist, author, university professor, and Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Alan L. Berger is the Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair for Holocaust Studies at Florida Atlantic University, USA. He has lectured on Jewish religious and cultural thought in America, Europe, Israel, and Japan.

0. Introduction PART I: Elie Wiesel 1. Shattering the Sacred Canopy 2. Elie Wiesel and Jewish-Christian Relations: A Journey of Hope Against Despair 3. The Second Generation: Memory and Jewish Identity 4. Neo-Hasidism: A Contemporary Message 5. Human Rights 6. Wiesel's Search for World Peace PART II: Documents