The Key from Cordoba

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, we...