Correspondence to Franz Werfel, 1942.

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Correspondence to Franz Werfel, 1942.

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A request to Werfel to write a letter of support for Alfred Wolfenstein, who was at that time in Nice, France, attempting to emigrate to the U.S.; Wolfenstein was being assisted by the International Rescue and Relief Committee (successor organization to the Emergency Rescue Committee) and his case was being presented before the Appeal Board in Washington, D.C., by Kurt Pinthus. A thank-you letter from Kesten indicates that Werfel indeed provided a letter for Wolfenstein.

2 items (2 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Wolfenstein, Alfred, 1888-1945

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From 1919 to 1920 Wolfenstein was the editor of the literary journal Die Erhebung: Jahrbuch für neue Dichtung und Wertung. Werfel's story "Der Tod des Mose" appeared in the journal in 1920. Werfel also addresses Wolfenstein as a friend and hopes to see him soon. From the description of Correspondence from Franz Werfel, ca. 1920. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864836 ...

Kesten, Hermann, 1900-1996

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Kesten was a Galician-born, German-Jewish writer and publisher who had fled Germany in 1933 and eventually emigrated to the U.S. in 1940, where he was active in the work of the Emergency Rescue Committee, in New York City. Alfred Wolfenstein was a German Expressionist poet, as well as dramatist and prose writer, who, threatened by arrest in 1933, had fled to Prague, and in 1939 to France. When German troops occupied Paris he was imprisoned for a short time, escaped, and lived thereafter on the r...