The lost candlestick | Stefan Zweig

In his masterpiece "The Lost Menorah," Zweig explores, in an epic style, the great journey of the quest for the treasure of treasures, the divine Menorah or, in short, the awe-inspiring: "the Menorah." In this wondrous and confusing novel at the same time, Zweig presents us with a testimony based on his oral and narrative memory, and his ability to delve into the depths of the human soul, about the important journey of tracking the Menorah stolen by the Vandals during the great looting of Rome. A different kind of journey not recorded in the books of the Torah, although its structural and narrative foundations were inspired by its seven-branched menorah, or the divine Menorah. It is a novel that offers the idea of salvation in a different way. For Zweig, salvation is never found in that lost sacred object, but in the long journey undertaken by humans in search of hope during times of terror, fear, and rapid collapses.