Smugglers. A Novel in Three Parts - Hardcover

Oyzer Warshawsky

9789652294265: Smugglers. A Novel in Three Parts

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9652294268 ISBN 13: 9789652294265

Publisher: Gefen Publishing House, 2008

Smugglers. A Novel in Three Parts deals with a neglected chapter of history -- the First World War in Poland during the period of the German occupation. The Jews in the Pale of Settlement, mainly small shopkeepers and poor craftsman, suffered from discrimination and persecution under the Russians. When the Germans conquered most of what was once Congress Poland, the Jews had some relief from Russian anti-Semitism, but the economic situation became even more grievous. Famine and typhus were rampant and the economic decline left the poor cobblers, tailors and tradesmen without work and with their meager savings depleted. They were desperate. And then they hit upon a scheme.

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About the Author:

Oyzer Warshawsky was born in Sochaczew, Poland in 1898. He moved to Warsaw as a young man and began to work on his first novel, Smugglers, during World War I. The book, published when he was only twenty-one, was an outstanding literary success, highly acclaimed by the critics and an instant best seller. It went into many editions. His second eagerly awaited novel, Harvest Time, was published in 1926 in Paris where he had made his home. The book disappointed his readers and, crushed by the critics cool response, Warshawsky gave up writing novels and began a new career as an artist and an art critic. In 1941 he fled Nazi-occupied Paris for Marseilles, then Nice and finally Rome, where his hiding place was discovered by the Gestapo. In May 1944 he was sent to Auschwitz and murdered.

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