Libeň synagogue

U Synagogy
Karel Vlček

In 1848 a foundation stone was laid for the new synagogue situated outside the regularly flooded Jewish ghetto. During the Protectorate the Nazis turned it into a warehouse of the confiscated Jewish possessions, under the Communist regime it served as a warehouse of the former Liben theatre. Since 1990s the synagogue has hosted art, musical and literary events…

Andrzej Bart: Fabryka muchołapek (2008)

Translation: Jiří Červenka, Fra 2011

The novel depicts a fictional trial in which the dead sue the former chair of the Lodz ghetto Chaim Rumkowski, who managed to turn the ghetto in a perfectly functioning business. Was he a cymical collaborator exploiting his comrades or a tragic hero, who tried to save lives?


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