From the publisher “Jacob the Liar” is the first and most famous novel by Jurek Becker. The theme of the Holocaust is natural for the writer, whose childhood years were spent in ghettos and concentration camps. This is a sad and wise story about an old eccentric who tried to alleviate the lot of his fellow sufferers in the Polish ghetto. His little white lie didn’t change anything, and couldn’t change anything. But for a short time she gave hope to the doomed...