Plunderland – boekenroof door Alfred Rosenberg 1940-1945
The looting of art by the Nazis always attracts a great deal of interest. Restitution applications, too, usually concern the visual arts. But the Nazis looted much more, such as books, archives, and ritual objects. This publication describes for the first time how, when and by whom the literary landscape in the Netherlands was razed […]
Anna Cassel & Hilma af Klint – the 1913 exhibition
This book discusses the very first exhibition of the abstract work of Hilma af Klint and her life-long friend, artistic partner and facilitator, Anna Cassel. They were included in the exhibition accompanying the Conference of the European Confederation of Theosophical Societies in Europe held in Stockholm in 1913. The analysis of the exhibition has led […]
Anna Cassel & Hilma af Klint – Childhood 1907
In December 1907 Hilma af Klint and the group De Fem finished the of a series of ten paintings, called In December 1907 Hilma af Klint and the group De Fem finished the of a series of ten paintings, called De tio största (The Ten Largest). Its iconographical richness defies any simple explanation. Descriptions in […]
Immer zu wenig Liebe – Grete Trakl
The historical portrayal of Grete Trakl is astonishingly one-dimensional. She essentially functions only as a satellite to her brother Georg, the famous poet, and always in a kind of dependent relationship. As his muse and goddess of fate, as the protagonist in countless poems filled with guilt, nightmares, melancholy, and hidden desire, as the seductress […]
Jewish marriages in Amsterdam 1598-1811
Jewish Marriage in Amsterdam / Trouwen in Mokum 1598-1811 is the single, monumental genealogical sourcebook for Jews, both Sephardic and Ashkenazi and living in all parts of the world, in search of their ancestors having their roots in Amsterdam. Amsterdam was one of the main centers both of the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewry in the […]
Jewish first names in Amsterdam 1669-1850
In performing genealogical research of one’s Jewish ancestors one often comes across the difficulty that first names used in a Dutch deed (e.g. publication of the banns) do not correspond to the first names in the matching “Hebrew” deed. This observation led to the following questions: is this an incidental or a general phenomenon and […]