Jean-Richard Bloch

Jean-Richard Bloch (born May 25, 1884 in Paris ; died March 15, 1947 there ) was a French writer and critic of Jewish origin.

Life

As a communist and anti-fascist , he was a friend of Romain Rolland and took part in the Spanish Civil War in 1936. After the German occupation of France in June 1940, the persecution of the Jews began here, too , from which Bloch also suffered. In April 1941 he was able to travel to the Soviet Union with his wife. Bloch worked in Moscow for a station that broadcast radio programs in French. They didn't return until January 1945. Her daughter France Bloch-Serazin was arrested as a resistance fighter in the Resistance in 1942 and sentenced to death. In 1943 she was executed with the guillotine in the Holstenglacis prison in Hamburg . Her husband Fredo Serazin was murdered in custody in France in 1944.

From 1946 until his death, Jean-Richard Bloch was a member of the upper house of the French parliament, the then Conseil de la République .

Simler & Co. Rotapfel, Zurich 1926
Kurdish Night: Roman . Rotapfel, Zurich 1927
Lévy. Narrative. Rhein-Verlag, Basel 1927; again in Frauke Rother, Klaus Möckel Eds .: French storytellers from 7 centuries. Translator: Hannelore Jubisch. Verlag Volk und Welt , Berlin (GDR) 2nd edition 1985, pp. 68–115 (about the Dreyfus affair )
On a cargo steamer to Africa: voyage of discovery to the land of the well-known . Zsolnay, Vienna 1929.
& Co: A novel from the world of industry . Zsolnay, Vienna 1930
The meaning of our century . Zsolnay, Berlin 1932
Sybilla . Novel. Zsolnay, Berlin 1933
Toulon . French history in 3 eras . Henschel, Berlin 1947
Spain '36 . Translator: Klaus Laabs and Jeanne Pachnicke. Aufbau-Verlag , Berlin (GDR) 1986