The 28th Day of Elul

Hutchinson (1967)

279 pages

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Dewey * Fic 568 Elman

LC Classification Adult

Genre

Adult / Literature / Fiction / Historical

Subject

560 Jewish Literature / Individual Works / 560

Plot

Alex Yagodah, living in Israel, is notified that he stands to inherit a large amount of money, if he can say that he remains a Jew. The answer composes this powerful, bitter novel...a memoir of his youth in provincial Hungary at the time of the Nazi occupation. An extraordinary with meaning and intensity!

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Notes

From Wikipedia: In 1968, Elman published The 28th Day of Elul, the first of a trilogy of novels, followed by Lilo's Diary (1968) and The Reckoning (1969). Each of the novels tells the same story from a different point of view about the fate of the Yagodahs, a Hungarian family at the end of World War II. Elie Wiesel said of The 28th Day of Elul in his review for The New York Times: "Born and raised in New York City, Richard M. Elman was barely 10 when the nightmare ended in Europe. Yet he evokes some of its living fragmentary images as though his voice came from within."