Paying for the paper
Robert Alter, 6 August 1992
Life with a Star
by Jiri Weil, translated by Rita Klimova and Roslyn Schloss.
Flamingo, 247 pp., £4.99, February 1991,0 00 654329 4 Show More
by Jiri Weil, translated by Rita Klimova and Roslyn Schloss.
Flamingo, 247 pp., £4.99, February 1991,
Mendelssohn is on the Roof
by Jiri Weil, translated by Marie Winn.
HarperCollins, 228 pp., £14.99, February 1992,0 00 223863 2 Show More
by Jiri Weil, translated by Marie Winn.
HarperCollins, 228 pp., £14.99, February 1992,
“... with the moral patterns of existence before the Holocaust, it could not have happened. Jiri Weil is the grimly persuasive chronicler of one set of such continuities. Weil (1900-1959), a Prague Jew, was a Communist in the Thirties, but after a sojourn in Moscow during the early years of the Stalinist ... ”
