Jeremiah (play)

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Jeremiah: A Drama in Nine Scenes, or Jeremias, is a 1917 play written in German by Stefan Zweig. Written while he was a soldier, it reflects his pacifist sentiments and Jewish religious background, and ends with the line "A people can be put in chains, its spirit, never."

Thomas Adam wrote[1] that Zweig later used the work as a point of departure for addressing the rise of National Socialism, culminating in The Royal Game (Schachnovelle, a novella written in 1938–'41 and posthumously published in 1942).

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