Aaron's leap
By: Magdaléna Platzová ; translated by Craig Cravens
Contributors: Cravens, Craig Stephen, 1965-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781934137703
Subjects: Jewish women artists; Jewish children in the Holocaust; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Fiction
Work titles: Aaronuv skok
Description: "Based on the real-life story of Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Aaron's Leap is framed by the lens of a twenty first-century Israeli film crew delving into the extraordinary life of a woman who taught art to children in the Nazi transport camp of Terezin and died in Auschwitz. Aided by the granddaughter of one of the artist's pupils, the filmmakers begin to uncover buried secrets from a time when personal and artistic decisions became matters of life-and-death. Spanning a century of Central European history, the novel evokes the founding impulses, theories, and personalities of the European Modernist movement (with characters modeled after Oskar Kokoschka, Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel) and shows what it takes to grapple with a troubled history, "leap" into the unknown, and dare to be oneself."--
Notes: Translated from the Czech of: Aaronuv skok.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 220).