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The Cigar Factory of Isay Rottenberg
In 1932, Isay Rottenberg, a Jewish paper merchant, bought a cigar factory in Germany: Deutsche Zigarren-Werke. When his competitors, supported by Nazi authorities, tried to shut it down, the headstrong entrepreneur refused to give up the fight. Isay Rottenberg was born into a large Jewish family in Russian Poland in 1889 and grew up in Lodz. He left for Berlin at the age of eighteen to escape military service, moving again in 1917 to Amsterdam on the occasion of his marriage. In 1932 he moved to Germany to take over a bankrupt cigar factory. With newfangled American technology, it was the most modern at the time. The energetic and ambitious Rottenberg was certain he could bring it back to li...
What We Buried
A Toronto homicide detective is attacked at his doorstep when his investigation into possible links between the Nazi occupation of Italy and the murder of his brother decades later gets too close to the truth—in the new crime thriller from bestselling author Robert Rotenberg. Perfect for fans of Scott Turow and David Baldacci. It’s been years since Daniel Kennicott’s brother, Michael, was shot and killed the night before he was about to depart for Gubbio, Italy. The case, never solved, has haunted Daniel ever since. Long suspecting the killing was tied to Michael’s planned trip but overwhelmed with grief, Daniel has put off going there—until now, the tenth anniversary of the murder...
Black Square
An in-depth exploration of Malevich’s pivotal painting, its context and its significance
The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory
While many of the essays focus on recent developments, they shed light on the evolution of this phenomenon since 1945.
Language Policy and Discourse on Languages in Ukraine Under President Viktor Yanukovych
Declared the country's official language in 1996, Ukrainian has weathered constant challenges by post-Soviet political forces promoting Russian. Michael Moser provides the definitive account of the policies and ethno-political dynamics underlying this unique cultural struggle.
The Gulag Survivor
Even before its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was engaged in an ambivalent struggle to come to terms with its violent and repressive history. Following the death of Stalin in 1953, entrenched officials attempted to distance themselves from the late dictator without questioning the underlying legitimacy of the Soviet system. At the same time, the Gulag victims to society opened questions about the nature, reality, and mentality of the system that remain contentious to this day.The Gulag Survivor is the first book to examine at length and in-depth the post-camp experience of Stalin's victims and their fate in post-Soviet Russia. As such, it is an essential companion to the classic work...
Dancing with the Enemy
The gripping story of the author’s aunt, a Jewish dance instructor who was betrayed to the Nazis by the two men she loved, yet managed to survive WWII by teaching dance lessons to the SS at Auschwitz. Her epic life becomes a window into the author’s own past and the key to discovering his Jewish roots. Raised in a devout Roman Catholic family in the Netherlands, Paul Glaser was shocked to learn as an adult of his father's Jewish heritage. Grappling with his newfound identity and stunned by his father’s secrecy, Paul set out to discover what happened to his family during World War II and what had caused the long-standing rift between his father and his estranged aunt, Rosie, who moved t...
Geert Wilders
Op 22 november 2023 werd de PVV van Geert Wilders, tot verbazing van zijn vrienden en tot afgrijzen van zijn vijanden, met 37 zetels de grootste politieke partij van Nederland. Geert Wilders. De wreker leest als een politieke thriller, maar is in werkelijkheid een nauwkeurige en goed gedocumenteerde beschrijving van zijn politieke carrière. Wilders werd de zwaarst bewaakte Nederlander, maar ook de bekendste Nederlander in het buitenland. Onder zijn autocratische leiding boekte de PVV flinke verkiezingswinsten, maar afgezien van een kort avontuur als gedoogpartner (2010-2012) was hij voor andere partijen al die jaren een paria. Tot 22 november. De kiezer had gesproken. Maar daarna? Wat verkl...
