Why There Is No Heaven on Earth

by Ephraim Sevela, Richard Lourie (Translator)

A boy remembers his best friend, Berele Mats, whose dreams of improving the world outraged the adult Jewish community of his Russian town just before World War II

Genres: Fiction

205 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1982

About the author

also: Эфраим Севела, Efraim Sevela

Ephraim Sevela (Yefim Drabkin) was a Russian writer, screenwriter, director, producer, who after his emigration from the Soviet Union lived in Israel, USA and Russia. Ephraim Sevela was born to Jewish parents. His father was an officer. He was evacuated from the frontline in 1941. After the school Sevela was admitted into the Belarusian State University and became a screenwriter for many Soviet patriotic films. At the end of the 60s, Sevela joined the Jewish Soviet dissidents and took part in the capture of the main office of the head of the Soviet government in 1971. Sevela was expatriated to Israel. Aссording his words 45 years old Sevella participated in the Yom Kippur War where he was wounded. In 1977 he left Israel for the USA. Ephraim Sevela worked and lived in many cities such as London, Paris, and West Berlin. In 1990 Ephraim Sevela came back to the USSR and started filming very successful movies based on his works.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efraim_...