AFTERWORD Weil, Jiří
Lamentation for 77,297 Victims,
03/2021
Book Chapter
Taking the first edition of Jiří Weil’s Lamentation for 77,297 Victims (1958) into one’s hands, one might be inclined not to think of it as a real book. It consists of two signatures—that is, two ...folded sections of paper loosely inserted into a simple wrapper, no binding, just a few pages accompanied by three graphic plates by Zdenek Seydl. An occasional print? If so, what was the occasion?
The Lamentation’s wrapper is based on a photograph of the wall from the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague. It shows a detail with names of Jewish victims of the Shoah from Bohemia
