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From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel

"Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History"

In "Bruno Schulz," Benjamin Balint explores the complicated legacy of a virtuosic artist murdered by the Nazis.

“I am not made to offer resistance,” Schulz had acknowledged, “to stand up for myself, to defy the will of another person. I don’t possess the necessary strength of conviction… for that.”

The Polish Jewish writer was forced to decorate the home of his Nazi captor with fairytale murals. Where does the art belong?

Whether sad, fierce or downright murderous, these clairvoyant figures have enthralled writers from Sophocles to Charlotte Brontë and Hilary Mantel