An edition of Le Dernier des Justes (1959)

The Last of the Just

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The Last of the Just
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An edition of Le Dernier des Justes (1959)

The Last of the Just

New Ed edition
  • 5.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 8 Want to read
  • 1 Have read

The Last of the Just is a post-war novel by André Schwarz-Bart originally published in French (as Le Dernier des justes) in 1959. It was published in an English translation by Stephen Becker in 1960. It was Schwarz-Bart’s first book and won the Prix Goncourt, France’s highest literary prize. The author was the son of a Polish Jewish family murdered by the Nazis and he based the story on the massacre in York.

The story follows the "Just Men" of the Levy family over eight centuries. Each Just Man is a Lamed Vav, one of the thirty-six righteous souls whose existence justifies the purpose of humankind to God. Each "bear the world’s pains… beginning with the execution of an ancestor in 12th-century York, Englan… culminat[ing] in the story of a schoolboy, Ernie, the last… executed at Auschwitz." It has been described as an enduring classic that reminds "how easily torn is the precious fabric of civilization, and how destructive are the consequences of dumb hatred-whether a society’s henchmen are permitted to beat an Ernie Levy because he’s Jewish, or because he’s black or gay or Hispanic or homeless."

Gilbert Highet, a Book-of-the-Month Club judge called it, "the saddest novel I have ever read, almost as sad as history."

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Minerva
Pages
384

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Cover of: Der Letzte der Gerechten
Der Letzte der Gerechten
Oct 17, 2016, FISCHER Taschenbuch
paperback
Cover of: Last of the Just
Last of the Just
2013, Penguin Random House
in English
Cover of: Last of the Just
Last of the Just
2001, VINTAGE
in English
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Last of the Just
2001, VINTAGE
Paperback in English
Cover of: The last of the just
The last of the just: a novel
2000, Overlook Press
in English
Cover of: Le Dernier DES Justes
Le Dernier DES Justes
January 1, 1997, Editions du Seuil
Paperback in French
Cover of: The Last of the Just (Library of the Holocaust)
The Last of the Just (Library of the Holocaust)
August 1996, MJF Books
Hardcover in English
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The Last of the Just
May 21, 1992, Minerva
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: The last of the just
The last of the just
1984, Penguin
in English
Cover of: The last of the just
The last of the just
1981, R. Bentley
in English
Cover of: Le\Dernier des Justes
Le\Dernier des Justes
October 1, 1980, French & European Pubns
Paperback
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Last of the Just
July 1977, Bantam Books
Paperback
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Last of the Just
1973, Random House Publishing Group
in English
Cover of: LAST OF THE JUST (Last of the Just 202)
LAST OF THE JUST (Last of the Just 202)
September 1, 1973, Scribner
Paperback in English - 1st American Ed edition
Cover of: The Last of the Just
The Last of the Just
1969, Bantam, 1969
Paperback
Cover of: Le dernier des justes
Le dernier des justes: roman.
1968, Seuil
in French
Cover of: The last of the just
The last of the just
1962, Reprint Society
in English
Cover of: Der Letzte der Gerechten
Der Letzte der Gerechten: Roman
1961, Verlag Volk und Welt
Hardcover in German
Cover of: The last of the just.
The last of the just.
1961, Atheneum Publishers
in English
Cover of: The last of the just.
The last of the just.
1961, Atheneum Publishers
in English
Cover of: The last of the just.
The last of the just.
1961, Secker & Warburg
in English - Translated [from the French] by Stephen Becker.
Cover of: Der letsṭer fun di tsadiḳim
Cover of: The last of the just.
The last of the just.
1961, Atheneum Publishers
in English
Cover of: The last of the just.
The last of the just.
1961, Bantam books
in English
Cover of: Thel ast of the just
Thel ast of the just
1961, Secker & Warburg
in English
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The last of the just
1961, Atheneum Publishers
in English
Cover of: The last of the just
The last of the just
1961, Atheneum Publishers
in English
Cover of: Der letster fun di tsadikim
Der letster fun di tsadikim: roman.
1961, Menorah
in Yiddish
Cover of: The last of the just
The last of the just
1960, Atheneum Publishers
in English - [1st American ed.]
Cover of: The last of the just.
The last of the just.
1960, Atheneum Publishers
in English - [1st American ed.]
Cover of: Der Letzte der Gerechten
Der Letzte der Gerechten: Roman
1959, S. Fischer
in German
Cover of: Le dernier des Justes
Le dernier des Justes: roman
1959, Éditions du Seuil
in French
Cover of: Le dernier des justes
Le dernier des justes: roman
1959, Seuil
in English
Cover of: Le dernier des Justes
Le dernier des Justes: roman
1959, Éditions du Seuil
in French
Cover of: Le Dernier des justes
Le Dernier des justes
July 1, 1959, Seuil
Paperback
Cover of: Der Letzte der Gerechten
Der Letzte der Gerechten: Roman.
1959, S. Fischer
in German
Cover of: Le dernier des justes
Le dernier des justes: roman
1959, Editions du Seuil, Editions Du Seuil, Seuil
in French
Cover of: Le dernier des Justes.
Le dernier des Justes.
1959, Editions du Seuil
in French
Cover of: The last of the just
The last of the just
Publisher unknown
Cover of: Le Dernier Des Justes
Le Dernier Des Justes
Publish date unknown, Editions Du Seuil
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: El último justo.
El último justo.
Publish date unknown, Editorial Seix Barral

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Paperback
Number of pages
384

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OL7966608M
ISBN 10
0749391111
ISBN 13
9780749391119
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29477
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