Harry Zohn
Harry Zohn (born November 21, 1923 in Vienna ; died June 3, 2001 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was a literary historian , essayist and translator from German into English ( Herzl , Kraus , Tucholsky , Benjamin , Buber , Scholem and others).
Life
After the annexation of Austria , he emigrated to England in 1939 and lived in Boston from 1940. He was a professor at Brandeis University in Waltham , Massachusetts, and wrote numerous specialist papers on German, especially German-Jewish, literature.
Zohn was married to Judith Gorfinkle and had two children with her. He died of leukemia in Boston in 2001 .
Awards
- 1960: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 1999: Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna
Works (selection)
- Viennese Jews in German Literature , Tel Aviv 1964
- Austrian Jews in Literature. A bio-bibliographical encyclopedia , Tel Aviv 1969
- The colorful downfall: Austrian reading book , 1971
- Karl Kraus , 1971
- "... I am a son of the German language only ...". Jewish heritage in Austrian literature , Vienna / Munich 1986
literature
- Amy Colin and Elisabeth Strenger (Eds.): Bridges over the Abyss. Confrontations with Jewish experiences of suffering, anti-Semitism and exile. Festschrift for Harry Zohn . Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1994. ISBN 3-7705-2950-2 .
- Michael Hansel: Harry Zohn - mediator and bridge builder. Reflections on the literary scholar and his correspondence with Theodor Kramer ; in: “Zwischenwelt. Journal for the Culture of Exile and Resistance ”, Volume 18, No. 4 (Vienna, February 2002), pp. 9–12. ISSN 1606-4321
- Barbara Jauk: Harry Zohn. A mediator of Austrian-Jewish literature in the USA. University thesis. University of Graz, 2004.
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 1281f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Harry Zohn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Guide to Harry Zohn Papers, MS Ger 294 , Houghton Library , Harvard University .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zohn, Harry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American literary scholar and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 3, 2001 |
| Place of death | Boston , Massachusetts |