After 1933, long island urban gave guard to many best German and German-Jewish intellectuals. Stripped in their German citizenship through the Nazi-regime, those public figures both stayed within the manhattan quarter or moved directly to California and different areas. This compendium, adopting the identify of a well-known quantity released via Klaus and Erika Mann in 1939, explores the influence the USA, and NYC specifically, had on those authors in addition to the effect they in flip exerted on US highbrow lifestyles. additionally, it addresses the ameliorations that happened within the exiled intellectuals´ pondering while it was once translated into one other language and addressed to an American viewers. one of the participants provided during this quantity, are such admired names as T.W. Adorno, H. Arendt, W. Benjamin, E. Bloch, B. Brecht, S. Kracauer, the Mann kin, S. Morgenstern, and E. Panofsky. The authors of the essays during this compendium have been unfastened to decide on the attitude (biography, concept, politics) or element (a unmarried paintings, a private constellation) deemed top to light up the given intellectual´s paintings. Acclaimed NYC photographer Fred Stein, a German-Jewish refugee from Dresden, produced quite a few pics of exiled intellectuals and artists. a variety of those compelling pictures is reproduced during this booklet for the 1st time.
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