Author | Yoram Kaniuk |
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Original title | היהודי האחרון |
Translator | Barbara Harshav |
Publisher | Grove Press (English) |
Publication date | 1982 |
Published in English | 2 February 2006 |
The Last Jew (Hebrew: היהודי האחרון) is a 1982 novel by Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk. In the novel, Nazi concentration camp survivor's Ebenezer Schneerson's life is spared, after which he cannot remember details from his own life, despite remembering swaths of information regarding Jewish culture and history. An English edition translated by Barbara Harshav was published by Grove Press in 2006.[1][2]