The Last of the Just

The Goncourt Prize–winning novel of Jewish life and persecution from the twelfth century to WWII: "a powerful book—an eloquent and enduring testament" (Kirkus, starred review),

On March 11, 1185, in the old Anglican city of York, the Jews of the city were brutally massacred by their townsmen. As legend has it, God blessed the only survivor of this medieval pogrom, Rabbi Yom Tov Levy, as one of the Lamed-Vov, the thirty-six Just Men of Jewish tradition, a blessing which extended to one Levy ...