Prophets without honour : a background to Freud, Kafka, Einstein and their world / Frederic V. Grunfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grunfeld, Frederic V.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Germany--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Civilization.

Intellectual life.

Germany.

Jews--Austria--Intellectual life.

Jews--Biography.

Germany--Civilization--Jewish influence.

Austria--Civilization--Jewish influence.

Austria.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 347 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston ; Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society of America, [1979]

Contents:

A family resemblance

From the very heart of nature: Gustav Mahler, Sigmund Freud

Turn toward the light for a moment: Karl Wolfskehl, Theodor Lessing, Carl Sternheim

An angel at the gate: Else Lasker-Schüler, Erich Mühsam, Ernst Toller

Les indésirables: Albert Einstein, Arnold Schoenberg

Trials and tribulations: Franz Kafka, Kurt Tucholsky

Ultima multis: Walter Benjamin, Gertrud Kolmar

A sense of Ash Wednesday: Alfred Doeblin, Hermann Broch.

Notes:

"Copyright © 1979 by Frederic V. Grunfeld."

"First Edition."

"Designer: Helene Berinsky."

"This edition was published for The Jewish Publication Society of America by arrangement with Holt, Rinehart and Winston."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-334) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1979" and underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations.

ISBN:

0030178711

OCLC:

4593801