The trilogy about Joseph Flavia. Jewish war. Sons. The day will come. Feikhtwanger L.

In 1932, the outstanding German writer Lyon Feikhtwanger published the novel “Jewish War”, in 1935 the novel “Sons” followed, in 1945-“The Day will come”.

Together they compiled a trilogy dedicated to the life of the Roman historian and military leader of the Jewish origin of Josephus. The priest of the First Chreda of the Jerusalem Temple, the patriot and participant in the Jewish uprising, Joseph Ben Mattafiy faces a painful choice: to come to terms with captivity or accept death, go over to the side of the Romans and betray the faith of the fathers or die. However, the future creator of the historical treatise “Jewish War” chooses his own path on which he is endlessly lonely: living in Rome and using the patronage of Flavians, he becomes the most devoted preacher of the unique role of the Jewish people in the history of mankind...

in the work of Feihtwanger - a German of Jewish origin, forced to leave Germany with the coming to power of the Nazis, the topics of the expulsion from their native country and the place of the Jewish people in the world gain a special, deeply personal sound.