Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1942-1958.

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Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1942-1958.

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In part, an exchange between Bloch and Alma Mahler from 1958 concerning remarks Bloch had read in the Yiddish press stating that Franz Werfel, though a Zionist of the Buber school, had been baptized in France; Alma Mahler responds that Werfel was neither a Zionist nor did he at any time convert to Catholicism. For a photocopy of the original signed letter received by Bloch from Alma Mahler, see under: Leo Baeck Institute.

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Bloch, Chajim, 1881-

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Born in Nagy Boscko, Austria-Hungary (now USSR) on June 27, 1881, Chaim Bloch was ordained as a rabbi and emigrated to Vienna in 1915. He served as a chaplain in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I, and afterwards worked as an author in Vienna. He was the author of the Prager Golem. He emigrated to the United States via Great Britain in 1939. Bloch continued his literary work in the United States, and died in New York City on January 23, 1973. From the guide to the Chaim Blo...