Open AccessThe Shoah in Poland in the Work of Jiří Weil: Translations and Literary Reference*
Author(s) -
Hana Hříbková
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
poznańskie studia slawistyczne
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2450-2731
pISSN - 2084-3011
DOI - 10.14746/pss.2017.12.9
Subject(s) - the holocaust , judaism , literature , art , work (physics) , history , art history , classics , philosophy , theology , archaeology , engineering , mechanical engineering
Jiří Weil (1900–1959) is currently associated in particular with novel-writing. His works Moskva- -hranice (Moscow to the Border), Život s hvězdou (Life with a Star) and Na střeše je Mendelssohn (Mendelssohn is on the Roof) has been translated into several world languages. Jiří Weil was also a journalist, a researcher at the Jewish Museum in Prague and a translator. This study The Shoah in Poland in the work of Jiří Weil focuses on his translations of Polish poets and his literary work dealing with the Shoah and set in postwar Poland, Warsaw, Łódź and Auschwitz.