Edith Kurzweil

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Edith Kurzweil (born June 3, 1924 in Vienna ; died February 6, 2016 ) was an American sociologist and publicist.

Life

Edith Weiß grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Vienna and attended a school run by the Vienna Women's Employment Association . After Austria was annexed to the German Reich on March 12, 1938, the Austrian Jews were also expelled. Fourteen-year-old "Ditta" and her brother "Hansl" (born 1927) were brought to a supposed security in Belgium in 1939 on a Kindertransport , where they visited the Lycée d'Ixelles in Brussels . The parents Ernst Weiß and Wilhelmine, geb. Fischer managed to escape to the United States while Edith and her brother managed to escape after the outbreak of the Second World WarStuck in Belgium in 1939. After an adventurous escape through France and Spain , they reached Lisbon in 1940 on the cargo ship SS Excalibur to New York City , where the family reunited.

Edith Weiß married the German immigrant Charles Schmidt in 1945 , with whom she has the son Robert (* 1948) and the daughter Vivien (* 1949). With her second husband, the engineer Robert Kurzweil, she has the son Allen (* 1960) and she was with him for a long time in Italy from 1958 to 1966 , so that Edith Kurzweil speaks French as well as Italian. From Italy she also made a trip to Vienna to the “Aryanized” apartment of her childhood. Back in the United States, she began studying sociology , which she completed with a PhD in 1973 . She then became a professor at Rutgers University .

Since the late 1970s she was the editor and editor-in-chief of Partisan Review , published by its founder, William Phillips . Kurzweil thereby became an important fulcrum of liberal, male-dominated New York society and collaborated with its leading intellectuals. In 1995 she married Philipp's third marriage and was the editor for a year after his death before the magazine was discontinued in 2003.

In 2004 she published the letters from her grandmother Malvine Fischer, who wrote them from Vienna to her emigrated daughter Wilhelmine in New York until she was deported and murdered in 1942 .

Awards

Fonts

  • Full circle: a memoir , Transaction Publishers 2007, ISBN 9781412806626
  • Nazi laws and Jewish lives: letters from Vienna. Malvine Fischer . New Brunswick (USA): Transaction Publ., 2004 ISBN 9783851321753
  • Letters from Vienna. Jewish life before deportation Vienna: Turia + Kant, 1999 ISBN 978-3-85132-175-3
  • The Freudians: a comparative perspective , New Brunswick (USA): Transaction Publ., 1998. [Nachdr. the edition] New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1989 ISBN 9781560009566
  • The age of structuralism: from Lévi-Strauss to Foucault , New Brunswick (USA): Transaction Publishers 1996, ISBN 9781560008798
  • Freudians and feminists , Boulder: Westview Press, 1995
  • Freud and the Freudians , Munich: Dt. Paperback publishing, 1995
  • Italian entrepreneurs: rearguard of progress , Praeger 1983, ISBN 9780030617096

literature

  • Uwe Henrik Peters : Psychiatry in exile: the emigration of dynamic psychiatry from Germany 1933–1939 , Kupka, Düsseldorf 1992, ISBN 3-926567-04-X .
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol. II, 1. Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 676
  • Christian Fleck: Kurzweil, Edith. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 426-428.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Austrian National Library: Handbook of Austrian Authors of Jewish Origin, 18th to 20th Century. Vol. 1: A - I. Saur, Munich, 2002, p. 767.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edith Kurzweil 1924 - 2016 ( memento from June 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), internationalpsychoanalysis.net, February 6, 2016, accessed on April 19, 2018
  2. ^ Obituary , legacy.com, accessed April 19, 2018
  3. ↑ Benjamin Balint : Full Circle , review, in: Commentary, June 2008 (fee required)
  4. ^ Phyllis Chesler : Brave Partisan. The many lives of Edith Kurzweil in: city journal January 9, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Kurzweil, Edith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2016