Josef Bor was a Czech novelist whose major work, Terezínské rekviem (1963; translated as The Terezín Requiem, 1963), is a searching examination of artistic creation in the Nazi concentration camps. A lawyer by training, Bor did not begin his literary career until his fifties, when he wrote two novels--Opustená panenka (The Abandoned Doll, 1961) and Terezínské rekviem--drawing on his experiences during World War II. Bor's works were an important element of the revival of Jewish themes in Czech literature in the early 1960s and were among the first Czech novels of this period to deal with the experience of Jews in the ghetto of Theresienstadt (in Czech, Terezín). Terezínské rekviem, a fictionalized account of a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem (1874) by Jewish musicians in the ghetto, has been translated into fourteen languages, has inspired radio...