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Friedrich Torberg
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Young Gerber
Kurt Gerber embarks hopefully on his last year at school, leading to the all- important exam, but finds that he is constantly at odds with the sadistic class teacher Professor Kupfer, known to his students as "Lord God Kupfer", who particularly dislikes him. Inspired partly by its author's own experience of his final school-leaving examination, which he passed only at the second attempt, and partly by the suicides of no less than ten school students in a single week in the winter of 1929, Young Gerber is a timeless tale of classroom angst, and an undisputed classic of Austrian literature.
Friedrich Torberg
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Tante Jolesch
Austrian novelist and essayist Torberg (1908-79) recalled the coffeehouse scene in Vienna during his youth in the 1975 Tante Jolesch, and augmented it with a second volume in 1987. The English translation follows the format of the first, adding interesting anecdotes from the second.
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Nazis and Jews
Friedrich Torberg was born on September 16 1908, in Vienna, to Theresia Berg Kantor and Alfred Kantor, an assimilated Jewish couple. From 1908 until 1938, Torberg spent his time working and writing in Vienna and Prague. In 1938 with German troops "occupying" Austria and a marked increase in support for the fascist Sudeten German Party in Czechoslovakia, Torberg relocated to Zurich. During the next 16 months, Friedrich Torberg was forced to immigrate many times, finally making his way to Lisbon, where, with the help of some well-connected friends, he received a visa to the United States. Torberg lived in the U.S. from 1940 until his return to Austria in 1951. This dissertation is a thematic a...
Gesammelte Werke
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Central European Jewish Émigrés and the Shaping of Postwar Culture: Studies in Memory of Lilian Furst (1931-2009)
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Between Religion and Ethnicity: Twentieth-Century Jewish Émigrés and the Shaping of Postwar Culture" that was published in Religions
