IlseBlumenthal-Weiss Collection 1935-1989 bulk 1942-1978

Celan, Paul

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000544.0x00013a ...

Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962

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Hermann Hesse was a German writer, popular but often politically out of step in his native country. His social criticism, and especially his focus on the individual and inner spirituality, contributed to extraordinary popularity in America in the 1960s. From the description of Hermann Hesse letter to D. Kilham Roberts, 1950 January 9. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49344033 German author. From the description of Zwölfe Gedichte vo...

Blumenthal-Weiss, Ilse, 1988-1987

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Born in Berlin on October 14, 1899, Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss was by training and profession an orthopedic specialist. She wrote poetry from an early age, an interest that was to lead to the publication of her first volume of verse, Gesicht und Maske, in 1929 and to a correspondence with Rainer Maria Rilke, which was published in Briefe aus Muzot in 1935 . Blumenthal-Weiss was subjected to the horrors of the concentration camp having lost her son to Mauthausen and her husban...

Brod, Max, 1884-1968

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Sophie Friedman was Max Brod's sister. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, ca. 1908-1962. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863017 ...

Buber, Martin, 1878-1965

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Buber was a German-Jewish religious philosopher, biblical translator and interpreter, and master of German prose style. Miriam and Naëmah Beer-Hofmann were daughters of the Austrian dramatist and poet Richard Beer-Hofmann and Pauline Lissey. From the description of Letters to Miriam and Naëmah Beer-Hofmann, 1961-1965. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78544052 Buber was a Jewish philosopher, who taught in Frankfurt, 1924-1933, and Jerusalem, 1938-1951. ...

Susman, Margarete, 1872-1966

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Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926

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Rilke wrote to Werfel in 1913 after reading Werfel's first 2 books of poems, Der Weltfreund and Wir sind. They met for the first time in the same year. Ruth Siebe-Rilke was the daughter of Rilke and Clara Westhoff; here she signs her name Ruth Fritzsche-Rilke. She was at that time the administrator of the Rilke family archive, located in Fischerhude, near Bremen, Germany. (More recently the archive has been located in Gernsbach.) From the description of Correspondence with Franz Werf...

Sachs, Nelly

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Nelly Sachs was born as Leonie Sachs, on December 10, 1891, in the Tiergarten section of Berlin. She grew up as the only child of the manufacturer William Sachs and Margarete Sachs, née Karger, in comfortable circumstances. Her first exposure to German literature was in her father’s library. She received private lessons for several years, until she began attending the private girls’ school Aubert in 1903. Her greatest wish at this point in her life was to become a dancer. ...

Weltsch, Robert

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A native of Prague, Robert Weltsch (1891-1982) was at this time the editor of Jüdische Rundschau, the publication of the German Zionist organization (Zionistische Vereingung für Deutschland), based in Berlin. (The journal was shut down by the Nazi regime in 1938.) Weltsch writes from Zurich, where he was visiting. From the description of Correspondence to Franz Werfel, 1937. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864789 Born in Prague on ...

Picard, Jacob, 1883-1967

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Jacob Picard was born November 1, 1883 in Wangen, Germany and died January 10, 1967 in Konstanz, Germany. Picard grew up in the area near the Bodensee (Lake Constance) and studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Heidelberg. He started writing poetry while studying law and his first articles were published before 1914. He served in World War I, during which two of his brothers, Wilhelm and Erwin, died. After an interruption of four years, 1914-1918, he practiced la...