Yosl Rakover Talks to God - Softcover

Kolitz, Zvi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099284235 ISBN 13: 9780099284239

Publisher: Vintage, 2001

Synopsis

A dying Jew's last words to God in the collapse of the Warsaw Ghetto: a text which is regarded as the single greatest piece of writing to have emerged from the Holocaust, the story of how it came to be written, the man who wrote it and the after life of both the author and his creation.

About this title

Review

"A singular literary creation, worth pondering for generations to come." --The Jerusalem Report

" The text is a quarrel as much as a prayer, an assertion of faith and a simultaneous refusal to accept the traditional notion that God hides his face in response to human sin." --The New York Times

"Yosl Rakover is one of those runaway masterpieces whose energy makes them explode off the page." --Le Nouvel Observateur (France)

"Remarkable . . . a grim but beautiful story." --Los Angeles Times

About the Author

Zvi Kolitz lives in New York City.

Translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099284235
• ISBN 13: 9780099284239
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112