![]() ![]() Furthermore, the book on which it was based, Everything Is Illuminated, distorts history by omitting crucial facts. Among the omissions in author Jonathan Safran Foer's tale is the mass execution of residents of a Ukrainian village in retaliation for having helped their Jewish neighbors. 2007 Pajiba's Best Books of the Generation (Readers' List), no.8.Furthermore, the book on which it was based, Everything Is Illuminated, distorts history by omitting crucial facts.2003 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, winner.2001 National Jewish Book Award, winner.Upon its initial release the book received enthusiastic reviews, particularly in The Times, which stated that Foer had "staked his claim for literary greatness." Awards and honors ![]() ![]() A man named Yankel raises her until he dies. Brod has a magical, maybe-virgin birth, when she, as a baby, bobs to the surface after her father dies in a wagon accident in the river Brod, for which the baby is later named. Interspersed throughout the book is the story that Jonathan Safran Foer (the character) learns about his ancestors-namely, his great-times-five-or-six grandmother Brod and his grandfather Safran. Alex's "blind" grandfather and his "deranged seeing-eye bitch," Sammy Davis, Jr., Jr., accompany them on their journey. Alexander studied English at his university, and even though his knowledge of the language is not "first-rate", he becomes Foer's translator. Armed with maps, cigarettes and many copies of an old photograph of Augustine and his grandfather, Jonathan begins his search with the help from Ukrainian native and soon-to-be good friend, Alexander "Alex" Perchov, who is Foer's age and very fond of American pop culture, albeit culture that is already out of date in the United States. Jonathan Safran Foer (the author), a young American Jew, who is vegetarian and an avid collector of his family's heritage, journeys to Ukraine in search of Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather's life during the Nazi liquidation of Trachimbrod, his family shtetl (a small town) in occupied eastern Poland. An estimated 3,000 to 4,000 Jews were murdered, including those from nearby Lozisht. ![]() In August and September 1942, nearly all Jews of Trochenbrod were murdered by the German security troops with assistance from the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police who rounded up Jews. The ghetto was exterminated during the Holocaust. After the German attack on the Soviet Union in the 1941, a Nazi ghetto was established at Trochenbrod for local residents including those from nearby villages. The real town of Trochenbrod was an exclusively Jewish shtetl located in Western Ukraine. ![]()
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