
Pollak's Arm
Hans von Trotha(Author)
New Vessel Press
Published on 31. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-954404-00-7 (ISBN)
Description
"October 16, 1943, inside the Vatican as darkness descends upon Rome. Having been alerted to the Nazi plan to round up the city's Jewish population the next day, Monsignor F. dispatches an envoy to a nearby palazzo to bring Ludwig Pollak and his family to safety within the papal premises. But Pollak shows himself in no hurry to leave his home and accept the eleventh-hour offer of refuge. Pollak's visitor is obliged to take a seat and listen as he recounts his life story: how he studied archaeology in Prague, his passion for Italy and Goethe, how he became a renowned antiquities dealer and advisor to great collectors like J.P. Morgan and the Austro-Hungarian emperor after his own Jewishness barred him from an academic career, and finally his spectacular discovery of the missing arm from the majestic ancient sculpture of Laocoèon"--Back cover.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
2 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
156 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-954404-00-7 (9781954404007)
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Persons
Hans von Trotha is a German historian, novelist and journalist who spent ten years as editorial director of the Nicolai publishing house in Berlin.