Jirí Weil
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Jiří Weil (1900 – 1959) was a famous Czechoslovakian 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, but escaped and hid for the remainder of World War II. In 1949 he wrote Life with a Star about Jewish life in Prague before the transports. He died in Prague in 1959.
Bibliography
- Life with a Star ISBN 014118695X
- Mendelssohn is on the Roof ISBN 0374208107
External links
Categories: Writer stubs | 1900 births | 1959 deaths | Czech writers | Novelists