Yosl Rakover Talks to God

Name: Yosl Rakover Talks to God
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ISBN: 9780375404511

ISBN-10: 0375404511

ISBN-13: 9780375404511

Edition: 1999

Authors: Zvi Kolitz

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A dying Jew's last words to God -- a text that is regarded as the greatest piece of writing to have emerged from the Holocaust -- the story of how it came to be written, and the afterlife of both the author and his creation. As the German tanks destroy the Warsaw Ghetto, one of the few remaining fighters, Yosl Rakover, writes out his last words to God, seals the text in a glass bottle, and thrusts it into the rubble before preparing to die. The text surfaces in Europe in the 1950s, is passed from hand to hand, is broadcast on Radio Berlin -- where it is acclaimed by Thomas Mann as a religious masterpiece -- is anthologized and translated into many languages. But what is hailed as the most…

Book details

Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/19/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Size: 4.50" wide x 7.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Yosl Rakover Talks to God	p. 1
Zvi Kolitz	p. 27
Loving the Torah More Than God	p. 79
A Privation of Providence	p. 89
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