by Emile Schrijver · Prometheus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789044649307
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«De Hillel Codex» is the literary thriller by Emile Schrijver, published by Prometheus in paperback (320 pages, in Dutch).
Max Blitz, a Jewish researcher from Amsterdam, searches for the Hillel Codex, an Old Testament manuscript missing since 1500, on behalf of Catholic collector Herbert Amann. The search reaches the ultra-Orthodox communities of Monsey and New York and reveals the world of collectors, libraries, and researchers of Jewish art and ancient manuscripts.
It is the first novel by Emile Schrijver, director of the Joods Cultureel Kwartier and professor of Jewish book history at the University of Amsterdam.
For readers of literary thrillers and historical plots around ancient manuscripts and Jewish culture.
