After 1933, New York City gave shelter to many leading German and
German-Jewish intellectuals. Stripped of their German citizenship
by the Nazi-regime, these public figures either stayed in the New
York area or moved on to California and other places. This
compendium, adopting the title of a famous volume published by
Klaus and Erika Mann in 1939, explores the impact the US, and NYC
in particular, had on these authors as well as the influence they
in turn exerted on US intellectual life. Moreover, it addresses the
transformations that took place in the exiled intellectuals'
thinking when it was translated into another language and addressed
to an American audience. Among the individuals presented in this
volume, are such prominent names as T.W. Adorno, H. Arendt, W.
Benjamin, E. Bloch, B. Brecht, S. Kracauer, the Mann family, S.
Morgenstern, and E. Panofsky. The authors of the essays in this
compendium were free to choose the angle (biography, theory,
politics) or aspect (a single work, a personal constellation)
deemed best to illuminate the given intellectual's work. Acclaimed
NYC photographer Fred Stein, a German-Jewish refugee from Dresden,
produced numerous portraits of exiled intellectuals and artists. A
selection of these compelling portraits is reproduced in this book
for the first time.
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