Flemming Oppenhagen Behrend: The Key from Cordoba, Gebunden

Blurb

The novel "The Key from Cordoba" is inspired by A. H. Behrend's: Some Actual Information on the Life of Agent Behrend (1915), a small book that I found many years ago at the Royal Library in Copenhagen. The novel tells the story of the Jew Joachim Israel Behrend, who arrived in Copenhagen in 1783. He was sent to Denmark by his mother for an arranged marriage to a young Jewish woman living there. The story follows him through his development and his marriages, until he becomes a successful, wealthy businessman with connections to the royal family. The story is also about the conditions of the Jews at the end of the 1800s, as well as about the anti-Jewish riots in the capital in 1820, which eventually contributed to Joachim's death. The novel focuses not only on Jachim's life in 1800 Copenhagen Denmark, but also on what it meant to be an emigrant in those days. The country of Denmark was thrown into the great conflict between Napoleon and the British Empire. Despite of the country's attempt to stay neutral, Copenhagen was twice attacked by England. The wars had a devastating impact on the country's economy and the city of Copenhagen. Author Flemming Oppenhagen Behrend grew up in Denmark. Since 1980, he has lived in the United States. He graduated in 2016 from the Assisi Institute focusing on Jungian dream analysis and archetypal pattern studies. He lives in Olympia WA, with his wife, Silvia Ruth Behrend.