Short stories by Dovid UMRU, a young Litvak writer, a Lithuanian Jew,
who was assassinated in Vilna (Vilnius) in the very first days of the Nazi
invasion. The stories were published in Kaunas in 1937 and 1939 (ERŠKÈČIAI
Apysakos Kaunas 1939 m. Žydµ Moksio Mègèjµ D-jos leidinys. Joselevičiaus
spaustuvé, Kaunas, Laisvès al.76 Nr.).
During his short life he expressed his creativity through painting and
writting in yiddish.
In a postface to the book, Yitskhok Niborski wrote:
"Dovid Umru is the most promising writer of these truncated times. His pen name, meaning restlessness, shows us not only his dynamic artistic nature yearning for expression but also the unsteadiness of the times, which do not offer –among the radical alternatives – the choice of rest. The themes of Umru’s short stories … attest his extreme anticonformism".
"Dovid Umru is the most promising writer of these truncated times. His pen name, meaning restlessness, shows us not only his dynamic artistic nature yearning for expression but also the unsteadiness of the times, which do not offer –among the radical alternatives – the choice of rest. The themes of Umru’s short stories … attest his extreme anticonformism".
In an article issued in Actualité
juive (01.18.2007), Henri Minczeles notes that the book has been
remarkably well translated into French. He adds that the title of the work, taken
from the opening short story, defines the place of Judaïsm in the immediate
prewar period.
Excerpts from the book and links to sites where it can be purchased are available on Google Books. This book is a featured offering on decitre.fr
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