J. Presser (1899–1970)
Author of The Night of the Girondists
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Works by J. Presser
Ondergang. De vervolging en verdelging van het Nederlandse Jodendom 1940-1945, tweede deel (1965) 17 copies
Dingen die niet voorbijgaan : persoonlijk geschiedverhaal verteld door Jaques Presser (1981) 14 copies
Orpheus en Ahasverus 10 copies
Uit het werk van dr. J. Presser 7 copies
Schrijfsels en schrifturen 6 copies
Moord in de poort 4 copies
Gewiekte wielen : Richard Arkwright 2 copies
Napoleon - deel 1 2 copies
Tochtgenoten 1 copy
Historia hodierna 1 copy
Moord in Moordrecht 1 copy
Associated Works
While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy (1967) — Introduction, some editions — 285 copies
Domweg gelukkig, in de Dapperstraat : de bekendste gedichten uit de Nederlandse literatuur (1990) — Contributor — 210 copies
Bevis att Napoleon aldrig har existerat : stort erratum (1827) — Afterword, some editions — 16 copies
Heinrich Heine - Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten - Een bloemlezing uit zijn poëzie — Editor — 6 copies
Anti-semitisme en Jodendom een bundel studies over een actueel vraagstuk — Contributor — 2 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Presser, Jacques
- Other names
- Wageningen, J. van
Drukker, J.
Reis, Haggi Mami
Presser, Jacob
Presser, Jacques - Birthdate
- 1899-02-24
- Date of death
- 1970-04-30
- Burial location
- cremated
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Birthplace
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Place of death
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Places of residence
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
Antwerp, Belgium
Bergen, Netherlands - Education
- University of Amsterdam
- Occupations
- historian
poet
university professor - Organizations
- University of Amsterdam
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- Works
- 35
- Also by
- 6
- Members
- 727
- Popularity
- #34,931
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 10
- ISBNs
- 37
- Languages
- 6
This 1963 Boekenweek gift was, for once, not a novella, but a kind of slide-show with fifty black-and-white illustrations and matching short explanatory texts developing the idea of "Europe" as a concept in geography, culture and history from the Ancient Greeks to World War II. Presser's style is light and ironic for the most part, quite schoolmasterish, but he doesn't shy away from big topics where he feels it's needed (from the perspective of sixty years later, we notice that he gives rather less space to colonialism and slavery than we would, and lets the Great Men outnumber the Great Women, but he does manage to squeeze Rosa Luxemburg and Teresa of Avila in, as well as the slightly more questionable empress Theodosia...). Nothing very unexpected, but a nice presentation, a few good jokes, and probably a useful little book for anyone not very well up in European history.… (more)