Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1944.

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Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1944.

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Kaufmann was attempting to arrange emigration to the U.S. and appeals to Franz Werfel for assistance in establishing himself there, perhaps as a composer for film; he encloses a copy of a letter written by Haas on his behalf, as well as printed copies of excerpts from published reviews of his composing and conducting (the reviews were published in Europe, India, and Palestine from 1928 to 1940).

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Haas, Willy, 1891-1973.

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Born and raised in Prague, Willy Haas was a film critic and screenplay writer in Berlin during the Weimar Republic and was co-founder with Ernst Rowohlt of the periodical Die literarische Welt. Of Jewish descent, he was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and returned to Prague, where he mostly worked as a film critic and editor. After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, he fled to Italy and then emigrated to India, where he spent the remainder of the war years. Among other things, he w...

Kaufmann, Walter, 1907-1984

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A native of Bohemia, Kaufmann was a composer and conductor. After traveling to Bombay in 1934 to study Indian music, he was forced to remain there indefinitely due to the threat of the Nazis and their occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939. In India he composed music for films; directed a chamber music society; and from 1937 to 1946 was the director of musical programs for All India Radio, Bombay. He later wrote on Indian music, which also influenced his own compositions. In 1946 he went to Englan...