Mendelssohn is on the Roof (Jewish Lives) - Softcover

Weil, Jierai; Winn, Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810116863 ISBN 13: 9780810116863

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Weil Jiri

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Reseña del editor:

Julius Schlesinger, aspiring SS officer, has received orders to remove from the roof of Prague's concert hall the statue of the Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn. But which of the figures adorning the roof is the Jew? Remembering his course on racial science, Schlesinger instructs his men to pull down the statue with the biggest nose. Only as the statue they have carefully chosen begins to topple does he recognize that it is not Mendelssohn; it is Richard Wagner. Thus begins a story of disarming simplicity that traces the transformation of ordinary lives in Nazi-occupied Prague. Death abetted by the petty malevolence of Nazi functionaries wins all the battles but ultimately loses the war, defeated by the fragile flowering of courage and defiance.

Biografía del autor:

Jir Weil (6 August 1900, Praskolesy - 13 December 1959, Prague) was a Czech writer. He was Jewish. His noted works include the two novels Life with a Star (Zivot s hvezdou), and Mendelssohn Is on the Roof (Na strese je Mendelssohn), as well as many short stories, and other novels.

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• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0810116863
• ISBN 13: 9780810116863
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 227