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Le Dernier des Justes, translated as The Last of the Just, is André Schwarz‑Bart’s debut novel that chronicles the Levy family over eight centuries. Each generation is tied to one of the thirty‑six Lamed Vav—righteous souls whose existence justifies humanity to God. The narrative begins with an ancestor’s execution in 12th‑century York and culminates in the execution of Ernie Levy, a schoolboy, at Auschwitz. Schwarz‑Bart, a son of a Polish Jewish family destroyed by the Nazis, draws upon personal history and the Holocaust’s atrocities to portray the enduring vulnerability of civilization under hatred and persecution.
First publish date: 1959
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: André Schwarz-Bart
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