I Need A Jew

André Schwarz-Bart | World Articles

Came from a modest background, he has tongue as yiddish. He spent his childhood in the neighbourhood of the Pontiffroy in Metz, where talking at the time as yiddish. His father had begun studies to be Rabbi then had exercised the profession of marchand forain. The second world war interrupted early studies of the young André. In 1941, the family sanctuary in Oléron and then in Angoulême. His parents and two of his brothers were deported: they won’t. André Schwarz-Bart is committed in the resistance. After the war, its resistant fellowship enabled him to undertake studies at the Sorbonne. He discovered Crime and punishment of Dostoyevsky he reveals a major question: the man torn between the presence of evil and the search for God, philosophical cornerstone of the last of the just.

At the University, he published his first writings in 1953 in the journal of Jewish students, ” Kadimah “. At this time there as project to tell the destruction of the Jews of Europe, event which is then described by many as the massacre of a flock of sheep which would be left to lead to the slaughterhouse . He wants to understand that the heroism of the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto and Jewish soldiers of Palestine is not greater than the spiritual heroism of the generations of Jews who had suffered persecution.

In December 1956, he published in the journal of the FSJU , excerpts from a future novel named ” the biography of Ernie Lévy “. It shows the dignity of a people without land, which, subject to the oppression and persecution, refused to adopt the arms and the violence of his executioners. Anxious not to hit the drive, he wrote as a warning: ” …”. I did not tried (my) heroes among the rebels in the Warsaw ghetto, nor among the resistants who were, also, the terrible exception. I preferred it disarmed heart, keeping naive to evil, and such that were our ascendants distant. This type of hero is not spectacular. It contested willingly today on behalf of a humanity more martiale… We would like that thousand years of Jewish history is that the derisory Chronicle of the victims and their bourreaux… I want to show a Jew of the old race, disarmed and without hate, and yet is man, truly, according to a tradition today almost extinguished.