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Edgar Hilsenrath

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April 02, 1926 in Leipzig, Germany

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Edgar Hilsenrath (born 1926) is a German-Jewish writer living in Berlin. His main works are Night, The Nazi and the Barber, and The Story of the Last Thought.

Hilsenrath was born in Leipzig. In 1938 his mother escaped with her two children to Siret (Sereth), in Romanian Bukovina, where they enjoyed a respite from persecution. At the time that he should have received an entrance card to higher education, he and his mother were interned in the ghetto of Cernăuţi (Czernowitz).

He began to write about the Holocaust after his liberation when he moved to Paris. Hilsenrath also lived in Palestine, Israel, and New York.

According to Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, Simon Wiesenthal Center, "Hilsenrath calls things by their proper names and portrays life first and...more

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Books by Edgar Hilsenrath

Average rating: 4.07 · 242 ratings · 23 reviews · 20 distinct works

	Der Nazi und der Friseur 417 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1988 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Fuck America 365 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Nacht 457 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1964 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Jossel Wassermanns Heimkehr : Roman 400 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Story Of The Last Thought 460 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Das Märchen vom letzten Gedanken. 400 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Die Abenteuer des Ruben Jablonski. Ein autobiographischer Roman. 333 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Zibulsky oder Antenne im Bauch. 400 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Berlin..Endstation 400 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Het sprookje van de laatste gedachte 400 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating: