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JUDEO-ALSACIAN MUSEUM
28 aout 2023
Sunday, May 22 at 4 p.m.: Devil's Fire
C onference by Janine Elkouby on her book "Le feu du diable".
Strasbourg, 1365. A series of murders shakes the city. The provost's investigation will stir up painful memories of the pogrom carried out against the Jews sixteen years earlier. Are we witnessing a vengeance hatched by hypothetical survivors of the massacre of the entire Jewish quarter at the time of the great plague? Or do we use the ghosts of the past to eliminate certain bourgeois from the city? Janine Elkouby's novel is both a powerful historical fresco, a bloody portrait of the worst human baseness and a reflection on the identity
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