Exiled in paradise : German refugee artists and intellectuals in America, from the 1930s to the present / Anthony Heilbut.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heilbut, Anthony, author.

Series:

Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism Series

Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism Series ; v.16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish refugees--United States.

Jewish refugees.

Jews, German--United States--Intellectual life.

Jews, German.

Political refugees--United States.

Political refugees.

United States--Ethnic relations--United States--Emigration and immigration.

United States.

Germany--Emigration and immigration.

Germany.

United States--Civilization--Jewish influences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (541 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1983]

Summary:

A brilliant look at the writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholars--ranging from Bertolt Brecht to Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann, and Fritz Lang--who fled Hitler's Germany and how they changed the very fabric of American culture. In a new postscript, Heilbut draws attention to the recent changes in reputation and image that have shaped the reception of the German exiles. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983 with a paperback in 1997.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Part I: Europe to America

1. Berolina

2. In Transit

3. Becoming American

4. The Academic Welcome

5. Left and Right

Part II: Europe in America

6. New Opiates of the People

7. The Line of Most Resistance

8. The State of Having Escaped: Theodor W. Adorno

9. Not a "Nice Guy": Bertolt Brecht

10. Advise and Affirm

11. Entrepreneurs of Images

12. A Club for Discontented Europeans

13. Er Gibt den Ton An

14. The Loneliness of Thomas Mann

Part III: The Return of the Enemy Aliens

15. The Victims Start Judging

16. The Scientists and the Bomb

17. From Undeutsch to Un-American

18. "I Somehow Don't Fit": Hannah Arendt

19. Heroes of the 1960s

Postscript

Notes

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-520-37760-5

OCLC:

1436832377