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Kniga napisana v 1932 godu, posle poezdki avtora v Palestinu. Deĭstvie proiskhodit v period britanskogo mandata i zhestokoĭ mezhnat͡sionalʹnoĭ borʹby. V osnove si͡uzheta lezhit realʹnyĭ fakt - ubiĭstvo evreĭskogo pisateli͡a de Khaana.Arnolʹd T͡Sveĭg - vydai͡ushchiĭsi͡a nemet͡skiĭ pisatelʹ - vystraivaet zdesʹ detektivnyĭ roman, predostavli͡ai͡a chitateli͡u razobratʹsi͡a, kakai͡a iz versiĭ ubiĭstva okazhetsi͡a pravdivoĭ.Politika, mezhnat͡sionalʹnai͡a roznʹ, lichnye vzaimootnoshenii͡a, mnozhestvo personazheĭ, shirokai͡a panorama sobytiĭ togo vremeni - i v t͡sentre It͡skhak-Ĭosef de Vrindt, ravvin, poėt i filosof, chelovek so svoimi strasti͡ami, mechtanii͡ami, somnenii͡ami. Pochemu on stremitsi͡a v Damask i chem zakonchitsi͡a ėto udivitelʹnoe puteshestvie?..Arnolʹd T͡Sveĭg (1887-1968) - nemet͡skiĭ pisatelʹ i obshchestvennyĭ dei͡atelʹ, gody gitlerovskogo rezhima provel v ėmigrat͡sii, v Palestine, gde zanimalsi͡a zhurnalistikoĭ; v 1948 g. vernulsi͡a v Germanii͡u. Shiroko izvestny ego romany o Pervoĭ mirovoĭ voĭne ("Spor ob untere Grishe", "Vospitanie pod Verdenom").

The book is written in 1932, after a trip of the author in Palestine. The action takes place in the period of the British mandate and violent ethnic struggle. The plot is based on real fact — the murder of a Jewish writer de Haan.Arnold Zweig, a distinguished German writer builds here detective novel, allowing the reader to sort out which versions of the murder are true.Politics, ethnic strife, personal relationships, lots of characters, a wide panorama of the events of that time — and in the center of Isaac Joseph de vriendt, Rabbi, poet and philosopher, the person with their passions, dreams, doubts. That is why he seeks to Damascus and what the outcome of this amazing journey?..Arnold Zweig (1887-1968) — German writer and public figure, the years of Hitler's regime spent in exile in Palestine, where he engaged in journalism; in 1948 he returned to Germany. Widely known for his novels about the First world war ("a Dispute about the Sergeant Grisha", "Education of Verdun").