Judging any author by the film adaptations of his books is perilous, but few examples are as unfair as Jurek Becker (1937-1997), a German-language Polish Jewish writer who survived the Łódź Ghetto, ...
As the child of German-Polish Jews living in Łódź in the 1930s and '40s, Jurek Becker sustained losses—of his mother, of his childhood, and of his memories of that time period—that haunted him long ...
Becker's Holocaust novel begins intriguingly with a man recovering his eight-year-old son after both survive stints in different concentration camps, but the combination of a lifeless protagonist and ...
What if fake news were not something negative, but could lift people's spirits and give them hope? Perhaps even save lives? That's precisely what happens in "Jakob The Liar" by Jurek Becker.
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