Research Catalog

Title

The emperor of lies / Steve Sem-Sandberg ; translated by Sarah Death.

Author

Sem-Sandberg, Steve, 1958-

Publication

London : Faber and Faber, 2011

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Details

Additional Authors

Death, Sarah.

Description

664 p. : map; 24 cm.

Summary

In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lodz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director, and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto's very existence.

Uniform Title

Fattiga i Łódź́. English

Alternative Title

Fattiga i Łódź́.

Subject

• Rumkowski, Mordecai Ḥayim > Fiction
• 1939-1945
• Jews > Poland > History > Fiction
• Jewish ghettos > Poland > Łódź > Fiction
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 > Poland
• Łódź (Poland) > Ethnic relations > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• History
• Historical fiction
• Fiction.
• History.

Note

• First published in Sweden in 2009 by Albert Bonniers Forlag as De fattiga i Łódź́.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Swedish.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

First published in Sweden in 2009 by Albert Bonniers Forlag as De fattiga i Lodz. -- "Winner of the August Prize"-cover. -- In 1940, the Nazis established the second largest Jewish gehtto in Poland, in Lodz. Some 250,000 Jews were imprisoned there. The ghetto's chosen leader, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, realised that their survival depended upon making the ghetto indispensable, so he forced everyone to work providing supplies for the German military. Was he a ruthless opportunitst, or a pragmatic strategist? This novel draws on genuine chronicles of life in the ghetto to ask the most difficult questions about survival and oppression.

ISBN

• 0571259200 (pbk.)
• 9780571259205 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 694228206
• SCSB-12899509

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library