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| | Commentary Magazine - The Last of the Just, by Andre Schwarz-Bart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | AT one point in The Last of the Just the main figure, young Ernie Levy, says of the reports about the Nazi extermination camps -" 'But the stories they tell are too much for the human spirit.'"... |
 | | ...True, Ernie becomes an adept in the ways of self-torture and self-destruction-but mainly because of the horrors of the daily Jewish life of Stillenstadt, which in cities throughout Germany, as Schwarz-Bart tells us, drove hundreds of sensitive schoolboys, who were not the descendants of Yom Tov Levy, to suicide... |
 | | ...If Ernie, and to a lesser extent Mordecai, are meant to exemplify the Jew as the "man of sorrows"-their Jewishness a martyrdom that absorbs the world's ills -they are also shown to be driven to their role by the unmitigated-the unmetaphysical-brutality of the Nazis... |
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