Arnost Lustig, author of Night and Hope, has died in Prague, aged 84.

A prisoner of the Nazis in Terezin, he jumped off a train to Dachau and reached Prague in time to take part in its liberation. He quit the country after the Soviet invasion in 1968, returning after the fall of Communism in 1989. He received the Kafka award three years ago, in the footsteps of Philip Roth, Harold Pinter and Haruki Murakami.
Much of his fiction is Holocaust-related. The most recent novel was Lovely Green Eyes (2004).

                                                                                                                                                        Foto archiv Pravo.

Arnost Lustig, author of Night and Hope, has died in Prague, aged 84.

A prisoner of the Nazis in Terezin, he jumped off a train to Dachau and reached Prague in time to take part in its liberation. He quit the country after the Soviet invasion in 1968, returning after the fall of Communism in 1989. He received the Kafka award three years ago, in the footsteps of Philip Roth, Harold Pinter and Haruki Murakami.
Much of his fiction is Holocaust-related. The most recent novel was Lovely Green Eyes (2004).

                                                                                                                                                        Foto archiv Pravo.

The Bochum Symphony Orchestra is presenting a double performance on March 18 of Bach’s St John Passion with the Sephardic Passion by the Israeli composer Noam Sheriff, originally premiered in 1992 with Placido Domingo as lead tenor. 

The concerts are being given as part of an extended theme on relations between German and Jewish musicians, led by conductor Steven Sloane. Here’s the Bochum website, which does not give much away (in German). 

But here, as bonus, is Domingo singing the Shema Yisrael and a Ladino lullaby, durme durme, from Sheriff’s Passion.
Be amazed.

The Bochum Symphony Orchestra is presenting a double performance on March 18 of Bach’s St John Passion with the Sephardic Passion by the Israeli composer Noam Sheriff, originally premiered in 1992 with Placido Domingo as lead tenor. 

The concerts are being given as part of an extended theme on relations between German and Jewish musicians, led by conductor Steven Sloane. Here’s the Bochum website, which does not give much away (in German). 

But here, as bonus, is Domingo singing the Shema Yisrael and a Ladino lullaby, durme durme, from Sheriff’s Passion.
Be amazed.