Michael Lev Bücher

Dieses Winsener Heft enthält 3 Zeitungsartikel über den Autoren unserer Reihe „Der Erzähler Josef Burg“, erschienen in den Jahren 2005, 2007 und 2008 in der jiddischen Zeitung Forverts, New York.

Sobibor traces the life of Berek (later Bernard) Schlesinger from his Polish shtetl childhood to his life during the Holocaust hiding in the woods, finding refuge with non-Jews, confinement in Sobibor, escape during the uprising, working with partisans documents. A physician after the war, he follows a relentless, unfulfilled pursuit of retribution for Nazi war criminals through the courts. The Sobibor uprising and its leaders, Alexander Pechersky, are pivotal to the novel. The author, Michael Lev, a product of Soviet Jewish culture, avoids loud rhetoric and heroic pathos, keeping the narration within the limits of realism. A flowing, masterful read.