The remarkable new book follows the story of a famous Holocaust text, once believed to be a Jewish resistance fighter's final words to God penned on the eve of the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto but later revealed to be a short story written by a Latin American Jew. 20,000 first printing.
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Zvi Kolitz was born in Lithuania, the son of a great rabbi. He currently lives in New York City, where he has worked as a filmmaker, a theatrical producer on Broadway, and a lecturer at Yeshiva University.
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.<br>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.<br>But what is hailed as the most important testament of the Holocaust is in fact a short story, written in 1946 for a Yiddish newspaper by a remarkable young Jew, Zvi Kolitz, in Buenos Aires, where he had gone to raise money for the Jewish underground in the struggle to establish the State of Israel. The Borgesian story of what happened to the text
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