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Benjamin Weinthal

Versatile Dutch Author Fills an Important Gap

By Benjamin Weinthal

As a young Dutch Jew growing up as part of an Orthodox Jewish family in southern Holland in the 1960s, Leon de Winter turned to Franz Kafka and Isaac Bashevis Singer to understand post-Holocaust Europe. Kafka’s feeling of “seasickness on dry land,” combined with Singer’s “Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions,” shaped the intellectual and novelistic development of the Netherlands’ best-selling author.Read More

Outcry Grows in Austria Over Massive Oil Deal With Iran

By Benjamin Weinthal

A Nobel Prize-winning author and a Nazi-hunter were among the 3,000 signatories to a petition released last week, protesting a massive oil deal between an Austrian company and Iran.Read More