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Title: The Last of the Just: A Novel by Andre Schwarz-Bart, Stephen Becker ISBN: 1-58567-016-2 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 31 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.93 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Memorable odyssey of the Jewish child in the 20th century
Comment: It is indeed strange how works about terrible events uplift the spirit. The level, the extent and depth of pain and loss that so many have suffered, especially in the century just past, with so many still suffering, often related to religious persecution, racism, or greed beggars one's ability to comprehend: especially those like me, born when I was, in a "new" country, "free" of many of the old ways, but not without some shame in the way those in power have maltreated our Aboriginal people. If nothing else, books such as this amazing volume by Andre Schwarz-Bart are essential reading to get our world in perspective. In the film Schindler's List some of the most memorable and rivettingly horrifying scenes are centred on the character played by Ralph Fiennes as the Commandant of a camp. In his world of the concentration camp, he has absolute power. He kills Jews on a whim, if he has indigestion, for target practice. To him they are insects. One of the most beautiful yet horrible moments in the book is when Ernie, running away, collapses into a meadow, sees the enormity of the sky, experiences emptiness, exercises power over the exquisite insects he encounters, a lady bug he rubs, squashes, and finally annihilates until nothing but dust remains. More and more insects he crushes, until exhausted. He reaches the bottom of the abyss, as a child, but rises to know the glory of love of a girl, at least once. The book has a biblical tone but is a strange and satisying mixture of poetry and unembellished factual passages. A memorable read.
Rating: 5
Summary: A masterpiece
Comment: The Last of the Just is one of the most moving,powerfully written and unforgettable books I have ever read. Why more people don't know about this book is a mystery to me. It tells the story of persecution of the Jews from the middle ages to the Holocaust and of the six men who are chosen to bring justice to the world. Read this book and you will never forget it. It is a masterpiece.
Rating: 5
Summary: One Powerful Book!!!
Comment: OK, you've read many holocaust books, probably seen several movies, been there, done that.
This one is different, and different in so many ways that you'll never believe you've read one before.
Of course there are not many that start the story in 1105, that's different. There are not many that try to fix the story in a context that is greater than the ending. This one does that, and makes it so strong that you can not put it down.
First the context, the myth if you will. There are in the world 36 'just men' that take on the suffering of the world, that are the reasons God allows the world to continue. There are among these men, some number of 'unknown just' who see the world differently from most of us. That when one of these 'unknown just' dies his soul is so cold that God must hold him in his fingers for a thousand years so that he can open to paradise.
Ernie Levy is one of those men. A thousand years of history, two thousand years of suffering are all concentrated in the story of one boy, the movement of a family from Poland, to Germany, to France, to extermination. It's all so simple. It's all so wonderfully told. The story of a people, the story of a family, the story of a man, the story of the twentieth century, all in so few pages.
I hope you'll take the time to read it.
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Title: Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo, Rosette C. Lamont, Lawrence L. Langer ISBN: 0300070578 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Hill of Evil Counsel by Amos Oz ISBN: 0156402750 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 28 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Tadeusz Borowski, Barbara Vedder, Jan Kott ISBN: 0140186247 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Badenheim 1939 by Aharon Appelfeld, Dalya Bilu ISBN: 0879237996 Publisher: David R Godine Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi ISBN: 0684826801 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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