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  Introduction: Jiri Weil's Life With a Star - Editor
Jiri Weil's Life with a Star is considered by many to be the best Czechoslovakian novel of the early 1940s.
It tells the story of Josef Roubicek, who, like other Jews living in Prague under the Nazis, wears a yellow star made of cloth over his heart.
Weil contrasts this cloth star with the stars in the sky, just as he contrasts the world of death created by the Nazis with the world of life.
www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1989/july/Sa15937.htm   (333 words)

  
 Fire Under the Water - Arnost Lustig
Jiri Weil's Life with a Star belongs to this latter category.
In those times, Weil had the courage to befriend young writers, and his was rare courage indeed.
Yet Weil was a sad man, despite having one of those beautiful smiles that so often serve sad people as a deceptive façade.
www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1989/july/Sa15958.htm   (293 words)

  
 Jiri Weil - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
Jiri Weil - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK home
Jiri Weil was a major Czech writer in the 1930s but is most widely known today of his two postwar works Life With a Star and Mendelsohn is on the Roof.
In 1942 he was summoned for transport to a concentration camp with the rest of Prague Jewry but managed to escape and hide for the duration of the war.
www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000033978,00.html   (82 words)

  
 Mendelssohn is on the Roof Reviewer's Bookwatch - Find Articles
Jiri Weil takes the reader into the confused labyrinth of the Nazi occupation of Prague from 1938 to the Soviet Liberation.
Although fictional, Weil draws a realistic portayal of occupied Prague and the daily struggle for survival under the Nazi Protectorate.
And although Weil ends his book with the liberation by Soviet troops, the story of Jewish liberation and revival did not happen until about 1994 when the Spanish Syangogue was once more opened for the High Holiday services after the Nazi occupation.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0RGU/is_2004_Oct/ai_n7641010   (947 words)

  
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Jiri Weil wrote a famous book Life with the Star, where he used his own experiences as a survivor of the Holocaust.
In this visionary book, Weil is drawing to us with gentle sweeps a political and social void.
In this manner Weil is taking a step outwards from the dimension of the modern life that Kafka analysed in his introspection of bureaucratic individuality.
construct.haifa.ac.il /~ilangz/madrid/site/olli.htm   (542 words)

  
 NYTimes
Mendelssohn Is on the Roof By Jiri Weil Translated by Marie Winn.
The enigmatic title of Jiri Weil's newly published novel refers to an incident in the first chapter.
Weil shows how the word "transports" -- "an ordinary word, one usually associated with furniture moving" -- suddenly takes on a horrific new meaning; how a simple knock on the door comes to signify one's worst nightmares.
partners.nytimes.com /books/99/02/28/nnp/weil-roof.html   (545 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Mendelssohn is on the Roof: English Books: Jiri Weil,Marie Winn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In a series of biting ironies, Weil, who died in 1959, takes us on a guided tour of the hearts and minds of both victims and persecutors.
Images of statues are abundant throughout the text, from an enormous Moses being hauled into storage to the tragic paralysis of a Jewish doctor to this musing on the part of the infamous Heydrich: "Knowing the secret of the Final Solution means invisible power.
Of course, they are all unlucky, eventually, from the innocent to the collaborators, and even those in the resistance who try to hide their countrypeople from the crushing progress of the "Final Solution." Weil, himself a death camp survivor, writes an unblinking portrait of the Prague he knew.
www.amazon.de /Mendelssohn-Roof-Jiri-Weil/dp/0374208107   (498 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Life With a Star: Livres en anglais: Jiri Weil,Ruzena Kovourikova,Roslyn Schloss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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de Jiri Weil, Ruzena Kovourikova (Designer), Roslyn Schloss (Traduction)
Weil (1900-1959) builds his drama through a series of telling vignettes; in one pathetic scene a doll cries "Mama" as toys of Jewish children are carted off to a warehouse.
www.amazon.fr /Life-Star-Jiri-Weil/dp/0374187371   (545 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Life With a Star: Books: Jiri Weil,Philip Roth,R. Klima   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This slim, wartime classic was written in the mid-1940s when the author's experiences during the Holocaust were still fresh; the "star" of the title refers of course to the Star of David European Jews under Hitler were forced to wear.
Unlike many survivor's accounts, Weil's novel (which I assume from the biographical material prefacing this work is probably quite autobiographical) does not deal with any aftermath to the Holocaust.
Weil takes his character Josef Rubicek through budding romance, poverty on the outskirts, danger, demeaning treatment, and the daily effort to survive, in Prague during the Holocaust.
www.amazon.com /Life-Star-Jiri-Weil/dp/0374187371   (1731 words)

  
 With a Star - BOOK WORLD
Life with a Star, an extraordinary novel by Jiri Weil, a Czech Jew who survived by pretending to commit suicide and by hiding from the Germans, goes a long way toward answering the question.
Weil's novel is one of the most important works of Holocaust literature to appear in English, but it is more than that.
Weil utilized his own harrowing wartime experiences to write Life with a Star, an account of how the Nazis organized the Jewish community of Prague for its own destruction and what it took, morally and psychologically, to escape the Nazi dragnet.
www.worldandihomeschool.com /public_articles/1989/july/wis15960.asp   (397 words)

  
 North Korea's Evil Regime
Thanks to Vrba, Wetzler and countless numbers of other witnesses, the horrors and extent of the Nazi final solution are universally known.
Like the Nazi Holocaust, the crimes and brutal reality of Soviet communism were also outlined and understood thanks to the writings of Arthur Koestler, Jírí Weil and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Fortunately, people who use direct eyewitness testimony in attempts to expose the greatest crimes against humanity can be found in each era and all over the world.
www.tallrite.com /weblog/blogimages/refs2004/nkorearegime.htm   (920 words)

  
 NYTimes
To begin with, only someone born on another planet would be unable to guess who ''they'' are.
Poor man; not even in death, not even in a country where most people earnestly wish him the best, is he allowed to have his way.
Jiri Weil's stripped, stark, uninflected novel makes us realize that when people are shipped off, no matter in what numbers, they go one by one by one.
partners.nytimes.com /books/99/02/28/nnp/weil-star.html   (1335 words)

  
 Jiri Weil // Green and Red
Jiri Weil (1900-1959) was an active participant in the literary life of interwar Prague, a member of Devetsil, and a translator of Maiakovskii, Pasternak, and Zoshchenko.
He wrote the stories of Colors "in pencil on scraps of paper, while (he) hid in hospitals and illegal apartments." The collection was published in 1946.
Three years later Weil's work was banned, and he published no more in his lifetime.
centomag.org /ceslit/book/print/166   (1308 words)

  
 Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It records the testimonies of those Romanies who survived the Lety camp or the recollections of their children.
Czech literature might have as few as two books that can match Polansky’s: David’s Star by Jirí Weil and Black Lyre by Jirí Kolár.
Ladies and Gentlemen, hold on to your hats, this ride’ll freeze you to the bone.
www.kosovoroma.com /index_books.htm   (656 words)

  
 Felix Mendelssohn: Musical Genius and Jewish Casualty
Several years ago, Jiri Weil, a Czech Jewish writer, penned a novel titled, Mendelssohn on the Roof.
During the Nazi occupation of Prague, Weil graphically portrayed an ambitious and inspiring S.S. officer.
This officer had received orders to remove the statue of the Jew, Felix Mendelssohn, from the roof of the Prague concert hall.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Mendelssohn2.html   (1034 words)

  
 Jiri Weil // Yellow and Blue
His translations of The Castle and The Trial introduced Kafka's works to a wider Czech readership.
Like Weil, he was forced into hiding during the Occupation.
"and if newts emerged..." Weil is referring to Karel Capek's novel, War with the Newts.
centomag.org /ceslit/book/print/155   (1917 words)

  
 Textbooks by Jiri Weil - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Life with a Star (Jewish Lives) by Jiri Weil
Mendelssohn est sur le toit by Jirí Weil
Zivot s hvezdou ; Na strese je Mendelssohn (Knihovna ceské prózy, 1945-1985) by Jirí Weil
www.directtextbook.com /author/jiri-weil   (334 words)

  
 Richard Lewis
An hour-long episode in a documentary series for the Arts and Entertainment Channel, U.S. News and World Report Television and Brazos Productions.
A feature script commissioned by Channel 4 Television (U.K.) and based on the novel of the same name by Jiri Weil.
A documentary commissioned by National Geographic Television and broadcast in the United States as part of National Geographic's Explorer series.
rtf.utexas.edu /faculty/lewisr/films.html   (388 words)

  
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Colors (Czech Translations, 2) Jiri Weil ISBN: 0930042875
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 Mendelssohn Is on the Roof -- Jiri Weil Marie Winn
Mendelssohn Is on the Roof -- Jiri Weil Marie Winn
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Wagner is almost deposed by mistake as the statue with the biggest nose." (N YTimes Book Rev) Originally published in Prague in 1960.
www.frontlist.com /detail/0810116863   (152 words)

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