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Otto Dov Kulka: Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: September 17, 2014, 19:00 – 21:00

Otto Dov Kulka was interned at the Terezín ghetto at the age of nine and was later sent to the Auschwitz death camp. Long-ago personal experiences pursue him constantly and after many years return to him as living images and reminiscences of a deep childhood trauma that he has not fully come to terms with to this day.

The book Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death is the result of one man’s unique and powerful experiment in searching for a way to understand his past (and our history).

Otto Dov Kulka was born in Nový Hrozenkov in Moravia in 1933. After the war he studied history and philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He now lives in Israel and is professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

This evening with the author on the occasion of the Czech publication of his book is being held by the VHL in cooperation with the Torst publishing house and the Israeli Embassy in Prague.

“Jurors praised Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death as the ‘best book on Auschwitz since the time of Primo Levi’.”

The Telegraph

“Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death has achieved the impossible: finding a completely new language for living with Auschwitz”

Jury of the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize 2014

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