The Last of the Just (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: André Schwarz-Bart
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: The early 1900’s to 1943, with a prologue covering the period 1185-1792
- Setting: Poland, Germany, and France
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: France or French people, Twentieth century, Jews or Jewish life, Germany or German people, Holocaust, Jewish, Poland or Polish people, Sacrifice, Concentration camps
- Locales: France, Germany, Poland
Characters Discussed
Ernie Levy, a furrier’s apprentice and one of the thirty-six Just Men. Born in Germany, this second son of Benjamin and Leah Levy studied secular subjects as well as Hebrew and the Talmud. He is intelligent, sensitive, and loving, so he quickly understands, though at first rejects, the need for martyrdom that pervades the history of the Levys and the Just Men. At the end of 1938, after Nazi persecution erupts, Ernie and his family emigrate to Paris, and he soon enlists in the French army. Following France’s defeat and his demobilization, he leads a...
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