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Menachem Kaiser
Menachem Kaiser holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of…
DiscoverMenachem Kaiser at Milim Festival
Jonathan Straight will be in converstion at UHC Leeds with American author Menachem Kaiser about his latest book.
In 2015 Menachem Kaiser discovered that the grandfather he had never met had tried for 30 years to reclaim an apartment building in Sosnowiec that had belonged to his family prior to World War Two.
The Fulbright Fellow decided to take up his case and was soon on a circuitous path to encounters with long-time residents of the building and a Polish lawyer known as ‘The Killer’.
Plunder: a memoir of family property and Nazi treasure also involving astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters and the revelation of a relative surviving the war is described by The New York Times as a ‘twisting and reverberant and consistently enthralling story’ and ‘an often hilarious, often poignant odyssey’ by The New Yorker.
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Plunder
An unputdownable tale of one man’s quest to recover his family’s property, plundered by the Nazis.
Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s property in Sosnowiec, Poland. Here, he meets a Polish lawyer known as ‘The Killer’ who agrees to take his case and becomes involved with a band of Silesian treasure-seekers, all the while piecing together his family’s complex history.
Propelled by rich, original research, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far…
