A Jew must die

The Resource A Jew must die
Label
A Jew must die
Statement of responsibility
Jacques Chessex ; translated from the French by W. Donald Wilson
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  • eng
  • fre
  • eng
Summary
On April 16, 1942, a few days before Hitler's birthday, a handful of Swiss Nazis in Payerne lure Arthur Bloch, a Jewish cattle merchant, into a stable and kill him with an iron bar. Europe is in flames, but this is Switzerland, and Payerne, a rural market town of butchers and bankers, is more concerned with unemployment and local bankruptcies than the fate of nations across the border. Fernand Ischi, leader of the local Nazi cell, blames everything on the Jews and Bloch's murder is to be an example, a foretaste of what is to come once the Nazis take over Switzerland. Jacques Chessex, winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, was a child in Payerne. He knew the murderers and sat next to Ischi's children in school. He has written a terse, implacable story that has awakened memories in a country that seems to endlessly rediscover dark areas of its past
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Cataloging source
UKM
Dewey number
843.914
Index
no index present
LC call number
PQ2663.H396
LC item number
J8513 2010
Literary form
novels
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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