The Last Jew

by Yoram Kaniuk

Book Overview

Innovative novelist Yoram Kaniuk takes us from the scorched earth of mid-century Europe, to the arid plains of the Holy Land, to the urban bustle of the American Diaspora, compressing the rise and fall of the Jews into the enigmatic character of one Ebenezer Schneerson. Following the ravages of World War II, Ebenezer finds that although he has no recollection of his family or childhood, he can, at will, recite Einstein's theory of relativity, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802118119
• ISBN13: 9780802118110
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"