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Jiri Weil

Jiri Weil was a major Czech writer in the 1930s but is most widely known today of his two postwar works Life With a Star and Mendelsohn is on the Roof. In 1942 he was summoned for transport to a concentration camp with the rest of Prague Jewry but managed to escape and hide for the duration of the war. He died in Prague in 1959.

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