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The Emperor of Lies Steve Sem-Sandberg

The Emperor of Lies By Steve Sem-Sandberg

The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg


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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 sustains the ghetto's very existence. This book chronicles the tale of Rumkowski's monarchical rule over a quarter of a million Jews.

The Emperor of Lies Summary

The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg

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. From one of Scandinavia's most critically acclaimed and bestselling authors, The Emperor of Lies chronicles the tale of Rumkowski's monarchical rule over a quarter of a million Jews. Driven by a titanic ambition, he sought to transform the ghetto into a productive industrial complex and strove to make it - and himself - indispensable to the Nazi regime. Drawing on the chronicles of life in the Lodz ghetto, Steve Sem-Sandberg captures the full panorama of human resilience, and questions the nature of evil. He asks the most difficult questions: Was Rumkowski a ruthless opportunist, an accessory to the Nazi regime driven by a lust for power? Or was he a pragmatic strategist who managed to save Jewish lives through his collaboration policies?

About Steve Sem-Sandberg

Steve Sem-Sandberg was born in 1958. He divides his time between Vienna and Stockholm.

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GOR003104470
9780571259205
0571259200
The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Faber & Faber
20110707
592
N/A
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