Stati a reportáže 1938-1959 – Weil Jiří (2023)

During the Protectorate, Jiří Weil was a persona non grata, appearing under a pseudonym or cipher only occasionally; he could return to regular journalism only after the end of World War II and contributed regularly until 1948, primarily to the weekly Kulturní politika and the monthly Literární noviny (which he co-edited). After the campaign against his novel Life with a Star (1949) and his expulsion from the Union of Czechoslovak Writers (1951), he published sporadically articles related to his work at the Jewish Museum in Prague, where he found both employment and, presumably, a human refuge. Compared to the first and second volumes of his journalism, which focused almost exclusively on the literature and culture of the Soviet Union, the author's interest expanded to include domestic literature and translations from other literatures. However, reflections on Soviet literature did not cease even after he stopped collaborating with communist publications (Rudé právo, Tvorba), and the author fundamentally did not change his conception of revolutionary literature.