Wiesel declines to enable himself or his perusers to overlook the Holocaust in light of the fact that, as a survivor, he has accepted the part of detachment. It is his obligation to witness as a "delegate of the dead among the living," Elie Wiesel's scholarly work provoked one commentator to review Isaac Bashevis Singer's meaning of Jews as "a people who can't rest themselves and let no one else rest," and to anticipate, "While Elie Wiesel lives and composes, there will be no rest for the underhanded, the coldhearted or any other individual."