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J. K. (Jacques Karel) Rensburg
1870–1943
A Dutch Jewish poet and man of letters, he is remembered for lyrical work shaped by wide literary interests and a life cut short during the Holocaust. His name is especially linked with Japanse verzen, a poetry collection now in the public domain.
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Japanse Verzen
by J. K. (Jacques Karel) Rensburg
About the author
Born in The Hague on March 24, 1870, Jacques Karel Rensburg was a Dutch Jewish poet and literary writer. He published under the name J. K. Rensburg and is known for poetry as well as broader literary work.
One of his best-known books is Japanse verzen, a collection that reflects his fascination with Japanese themes and imagery. Later readers and literary historians have continued to note his place in Dutch letters, and longer biographical studies describe him as an unusual, searching literary figure.
Rensburg died on May 7, 1943, in Sobibór. That fate gives his work an added historical weight: it survives not only as literature, but also as part of the broken cultural legacy of Dutch Jewish writers of his generation.