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The Last of the Just (Library of the Holocaust)
by Andre Schwarz-Bart
Hardcover / Published 1996
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From the Book Jacket:
"Our eyes register the light of dead stars. A biography of my friend Ernie could easily be set in the second quarter of the twentieth century, but the true history of Ernie Levy begins much earlier, toward the year 1000 of our era, in the old Anglican city of York. More precisely, on March 11, 1185." Thus begins the saga of the Levys.
On that date the Jews of the city were massacred by their townsmen. According to legend, only the infant son of Rabbi Yom Tov Levy survived. In pity, God blessed young Solomon Levy as one of the Lamed-Vov, the thirty-six Just Men of Jewish tradition. One Levy of each generation would also be blessed. The Last of the Just chronicles the lives of these righteous men, and in particular, the life of incomparable Ernie.
New York Herald Tribune:
A drama that seizes you and will not let you go.
San Francisco Chronicle:
In a style of crystalline purity that transmutes legend, chronicle and fiction into a work of art, Schwarz-Bart traces the lives of the Just Men and of the Levy family.
Saturday Review:
Only when the six million become a single individual does the mass fate take meaning... Scwarz-Bart's book is a monumental masterpiece towering above all the literary memorials to the catastrophe.
Library Journal:
It glistens with wisdom, sensitivity and compassion. An outstanding achievement, it does honor to its subject.
Chicago Sun-Times:
A triumphant monument to the nobility and tenacity of the human spirit.
in association with the International School of Art
in Umbria, Italy