[Year of first publication] 1969 (novel) 1975 (East German-Czechoslovakian film) 1999 (US film) [Character(s)] Jacob Heym [Work] Jacob the Liar (Jakob der Lügner) (novel) Jacob the Liar (1975 film) Jakob the Liar (1999 film) [Creator] Jurek Becker (novel) Frank Beyer (dir 1975 film) Peter Kassovitz (dir 1999 film) [Country of publication] East Germany East Germany-Czechoslovakia United States [Details] Jacob is the protagonist of the first novel in East Germany to deal with the Jewish experience of the Holocaust.[87] The 1975 film portrays Jacob and the other characters in the ghetto as "fully Jewish and fully human" and the Nazi guards as "the other".[87] [Media] 
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