Correspondence with Alma Mahler, Franz Werfel, and Adolf Klarmann, ca. 1913-1964.

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Correspondence with Alma Mahler, Franz Werfel, and Adolf Klarmann, ca. 1913-1964.

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The correspondence until 1919 consists entirely of items from Werfel (photocopies), mostly communications to Ehrenstein while Werfel was serving in the military during World War I; among other things, Werfel responds with deep engagement to Ehrenstein's poetry and prose. 5 original letters from Ehrenstein date from 1931 to 1945, after Ehrenstein had emigrated to New York, and often concern his struggle to support himself; the last of these is a striking condolence letter to Alma Mahler upon Werfel's death, in which Ehrenstein recounts a dream he had about Werfel. Correspondence with the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars in 1944 concerns assistance for Ehrenstein and includes a letter of reference for Ehrenstein written by Werfel. In 1947 Ehrenstein forwards to Alma Mahler an appeal on behalf of the German opera director Walter Jockisch. Later correspondence, in 1963 and 1964, concerns the retrieval of photocopies of Werfel's letters to Ehrenstein.

22 items (43 leaves).

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Ehrenstein, Albert, 1886-1950

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Otto Pick and Werfel were stationed in the same vicinity while serving in the miliary during World War I; Betty Drury was the Executive Secretary of the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars and corresponded with Werfel about Pick; H. Bouvier u. Co. Verlag provided a photocopy of l letter from its archive, written by Werfel to Ehrenstein; Wormann was the director of The Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem, where the Ehrenstein archive is located; Freund was an ed...

Freund, J.Hellmut

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Wormann, Curt David, 1900-

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Pick, Otto, 1887-1940

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Pick was a friend of Werfel from the circle of acquaintances who had often gathered in CafeĢ Arco in Prague. From the description of Correspondence to Franz Werfel, 1922. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864531 ...

H. Bouvier u. Co. Verlag.

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Emergency committee in aid of displaced foreign scholars

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The Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars was formed in New York City in 1933 by American academicians for the purpose of employing refugee German scholars in American institutions. Many of these refugee scholars were Jews displaced by the National Socialist government. The Committee disbanded in 1945. From the description of Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars records, 1927-1949 (bulk 1933-1945). (New York Public Libra...

S.-Fischer-Verlag

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Gottfried Bermann Fischer became Franz Werfel's publisher in 1938. Bermann-Fischer Verlag and Bermann-Fischer/Querido Verlag were publishing enterprises established by Bermann Fischer during his exile from Germany and in the immediate postwar period; they were eventually superceded by S. Fischer Verlag, which Bermann Fischer reestablished in Germany in 1950. S. Fischer Verlag subsequently presided over the German publishing rights to Werfel's works. Frisch held an editorial position at Bermann-F...

Drury, Betty.

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