Tuesday, 13 August 2019

Jochen Klepper 1903-1942 by J. W. Rogerson



Rogerson presents Klepper as someone with flaws, but placed in the horrific context of the Nazi regime that any light remained is a miracle.

It is also an insight in to the world that exists beyond the English language – I searched “Jochen Klepper” on a popular book selling website and of the 80 results this is the only one in English – if his works were available in English he would not be, from our parochially monoglot perspective, an esoteric figure.

Rogerson found Klepper because he used the Moravian Community’s “Die Losungen” daily readings and now I have begun to follow those readings, via the Moravian Community’s American cohorts and there is something particularly rich in that joining of dots.

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