Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Adolf Klarmann, 1946, 1961.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Oesterreicher, John M., 1904-1993.

Contributor:

Seton Hall University. Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies.

Language:

English

German

Physical Description:

5 items (5 leaves)

Contained In:

Mahler-Werfel Papers. Folders 887-888.

Place of Publication:

1946, 1961.

Language Note:

In German and English.

Biography/History:

Born of a Jewish family in Moravia, Oesterreicher was a Catholic priest who had worked in Vienna until the Anschluss in 1938, when he fled to France; he emigrated to the U.S. in 1940. He founded the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University in 1953.

Summary:

4 items from 1946 pertain to an inquiry from Oesterreicher about unpublished material reflecting Franz Werfel's relationship to Christianity, related to a chapter of a book he was writing; 1 item from 1961 concerns an article on Werfel by F. C. Ellert, which was being published in The Bridge, a publication of the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies.

Notes:

Includes a carbon copy of 1 letter from Adolf Klarmann.