The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is Jiří Weil . Jiří Weil (1900 - 1959 ) was a famous Czech writer whose works include the two novels Life with a Star and Mendelssohn is on the Roof
Life and work In 1942 , like all Jews in Prague he was summoned for transportation to a concentration camp , escaped and hid for the remainder of World War II . In 1949 he worte Life with a Star about Jewish life in Prague before the transports. He died in Prague in 1959 .
Bibliography Life with a Star ISBN 014118695XMendelssohn is on the Roof ISBN 0374208107
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Introduction: Jiri Weil's Life With a Star - Editor (333 words)
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.
Fire Under the Water - Arnost Lustig (293 words)
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.
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