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The horrible atrocities of the Nazi war machine of the 1930s and 1940s, including the brutal persecution and murder of millions of Jews, are by now well documented. But rarely discussed is the equally vicious assault the Nazis made upon Jewish intellectual achievements. The century leading up to Hitler's rise to power was one in which German-Jewish thinkers flourished, producing an immense outpouring of literature, music, and ideas. It was a golden age in intellectual history, second only to the Italian Renaissance.
Prophets without Honour is the collective biography of some of the era's extraordinary minds--Kafka, Einstein, Mahler, and Freud, as well as many lesser known, though by no means less important or impressive, thinkers, such as Walter Benjamin, Carl Sternheim, and Else Lasker-Schuler. Weaving together each of their stories into a colorful mosaic, Grunfeld brings these thinkers and their world to life, citing anecdotes that make evident their frustration and their pain.
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Prophets without honour : a background to Freud, Kafka, Einstein, and their world
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First Edition. Fine cloth-backed board copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xiii, 349 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24cm. Subjects: Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939). Kafka, Franz (1883-1924). Einstein, Albert (1879-1955). German literature -- Jewish authors. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 290727
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. xiii, 347pp, 12pp of b/w photos, bibliography, index. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket which has a torn and creased upper front cover. From the Vienna of Freud and the Berlin of Einstein, to the migration of Schoenberg to America and the death of Erich Muhsam in one of Hitler's concentration camps, the book tells the whole epic story of the German-Jewish intellectuals in the period between the 19th century and the end of World War II. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 015377
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Prophets without honour : a background to Freud, Kafka, Einstein, and their world
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PROPHETS WITHOUT HONOUR - A background to FREUD, KAFKA, EINSTEIN and their world
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Half cloth with dustjacket. Condition: Good copy. 1st edition. Designer: Helene Berinsky. Jacket design: Robert Aulicino. Frederic Grunfeld has written a collective biography of the galaxy of brilliant minds that produced such works as Mahler's 'Das Lied von der Erde', Freud's 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and Kafka's 'The Trial'. For many years the leading figures of this German-Jewish renaissance tried, with increasing success, to bring a new humanism into the public life of Germany and Austria. Yet everything they worked for was destroyed by the Nazi counterrevolution: books were consumed in bonfires; artists and intellectuals driven into exile. Retracing their steps, 'Prophets without hounour' often reads like an adventure story, for the author has unearthed a great 'buried' literature of exile - Alfred Doeblin's soul-searching account of his flight across France in 1940, or the defiant poems that Gertrud Kolmar wrote secretly in wartime Berlin before her deportation to Auschwitz. Contents: I). A family resemblance. II). From the very heart of nature - Gustav Mahler - Sigmund Freud. III). Turn toward the light for a monent - Karl Wolfskehl - Theodor Lessing - Carl Sternheim. IV). An angel at the gate - Else Lasker-Schüler - Erich Mühsam - Ernst Toller. V). Les indésirables - Albert Einstein - Arnold Schoenberg. VI). Trials and tribulations - Franz Kafka - Kurt Tucholsky. VII). Ultima Multis - Walter Benjamin - Gertrud Kolmar. VIII). A sense of Ash Wednesday - Alfred Doeblin - Hermann Broch. With notes, bibliography and index. 347 pag. Size: 23,5cmx16cm. Seller Inventory # 022768
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Prophets Without Honour: A Background to Freud, Kafka, Einstein and Their World
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