The Last Miracle: Jewish Stories

By Stefan Zweig
Translated by Anthea Bell, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul 

"The fates of men are nothing to the universe, Zweig tells us – but he makes us care"
—Sunday Times

"Thoughtful, highly observant, and humane" —Guardian

Five tales of family breakdown, political struggle, and monomaniacal obsession from one of the defining voices of the European Jewish diaspora.

Moving back through time from the First World War to Ancient Rome, these stories play on the tension between religion, society and individual with masterful irony. We encounter heroes and bookworms, visionaries and gadabouts, patriarchs and rebels – united across the centuries by faith, and by the intensity with which they live and die, their individual passions blazing out against the forces of history.

Includes: "Buchmendel," "Downfall of the Heart," "The Miracles of Life," "In the Snow," and "The Buried Candelabrum" 

Paperback
288 pages
Pushkin Press, 2025 
5.07 x 7.78 inches
ISBN 9781805331834
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