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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jurek_BeckerJurek Becker - Wikipedia

    Jurek Becker (German: [ˈjuː.ʁɛk ˈbɛ.kɐ] ⓘ, probably 30 September 1937 – 14 March 1997) was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar , which has been made into two films.

  2. de.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jurek_BeckerJurek Becker – Wikipedia

    Jurek Becker (eigentlich Georg Becker, * vermutlich 30. September 1937 in Łódź , Polen als Jerzy Bekker [1] ; † 14. März 1997 in Sieseby , Schleswig-Holstein ) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller , Drehbuchautor und DDR - Dissident .

  3. www.dw.com › en › jurek-becker-jakob-the-liarJurek Becker: 'Jakob the Liar' – DW – 10/08/2018 - dw.com

    Oct 8, 2018 · Hope as the elixir of life: Jurek Becker's novel about the life of Jews in a ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland is gripping and melancholic, but also full of humor. It's a story...

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jacob_the_LiarJacob the Liar - Wikipedia

    Jacob the Liar is a 1969 novel written by the East German Jewish author Jurek Becker. The German original title is Jakob der Lügner ( pronounced [ˈjaːkɔp deːɐ̯ ˈlyːɡnɐ] ⓘ ). Becker was awarded the Heinrich-Mann Prize (1971) and the Charles Veillon Prize (1971) after the publication of his bestseller .

  5. press.uchicago.edu › ucp › booksJurek Becker: A Life in Five Worlds, Gilman - The University of...

    Jurek Becker, the author of the first comic novel on the Holocaust, Jacob the Liar, and other highly acclaimed works, was one of West Germany’s most famous exiles from the GDR.

  6. www.nytimes.com › 1997/03/24 › artsJurek Becker, 59; Novelist Survived Nazi Imprisonment

    Mar 24, 1997 · Jurek Becker, a Polish-born author who survived Nazi concentration camps to write ''Jacob the Liar'' and other award-winning books in German, died of cancer on March 14 at a Frankfurt...

  7. www.encyclopedia.com › becker-jurekBecker, Jurek | Encyclopedia.com

    Jurek Becker can be defined as an author of the Holocaust on several levels: as a concentration camp survivor, as a teller of stories about the Holocaust, and as an intellectual who struggled with the role of narrative in post-Holocaust Germany.

  8. www.imdb.com › name › nm0065475Jurek Becker - IMDb

    Jurek Becker was born on 30 September 1937 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland. He was a writer and actor, known for Liebling Kreuzberg (1986), Neuner (1990) and Jacob the Liar (1974). He died on 14 March 1997 in Sieseby, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

  9. books.google.com › books › aboutJacob the Liar - Jurek Becker - Google Books

    Jacob the Liar. Acclaimed as the most remarkable novel of the Holocaust ever written in Germany, Jacob the Liar breaks with the genre's tradition of unremitting realism to...

  10. books.google.com › books › aboutJacob the Liar - Jurek Becker - Google Books

    Jacob the Liar. Jurek Becker. Plume, 1999 - Fiction - 244 pages. One of the most remarkable novels of the Holocaust ever written, Jakob the Liar is a tale of everyday heroism and the...