Nathan Asch

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Nathan Asch (born July 10, 1902 in Warsaw , † December 23, 1964 in San Francisco ) was a Polish - American writer of Jewish origin. His father was the famous Yiddish writer Shalom Asch .

Life

The Asch family moved to Paris in 1912 and emigrated to the United States of America three years later. She lived in rural Staten Island , New York State. Nathan Ash studied at Syracuse University and Columbia University in New York . He worked as a stockbroker and returned to Europe, to Paris, in 1923. There he met Ernest Hemingway , who supported him quite uncharacteristically. Asch's three short stories appeared in the magazine transantlantic review (1924), which Ford Madox Ford published with the help of Ezra Pound and Hemingway. German translations appeared in The Cross Section ( Marc Kranz , 1925), the stories Death of a Hero , Im stillen Thal in 1931 in the Neue Rundschau , his novels appeared in respected publishers. Klaus Mann printed Asch texts in his magazine Sammlung , the Prager Europäische Hefte the essay: Rooseveltism from Close by (2nd year, No. 2/3, Jan. 18, 1935), a book was published in Budapest that same year Biblos publishing house. All the translations of the novels come from the famous communist writer Hermynia zur Mühlen . In 1926 Asch returned to the USA with his wife and child. In the 1930s he worked in Hollywood as a film writer for Paramount Pictures , he was also in contact with the Film and Photo League . He was employed by the Works Progress Administration during the New Deal period .

Most of his novels (like his father's books) fell victim to the book burning in Germany on May 10, 1933. His last novel was published in America in 1937. His stories have been published by leading magazines such as The New Yorker , New Republic , Commentary , Yale Review , Viginia Quarterly Review .

Works (selection)

  • The Office . Harcourt, Brace, New York 1925. German: When the company crashed . Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1929. Translation by Hermynia Zur Mühlen .
  • Love in Chartres . A. & C. Boni, New York 1927. German: Love in Chartes Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main, 1930.
  • Pay Day . Brewer & Warren, New York, 1930. German: August 22nd . Rowohlt, Berlin 1930.
  • The Valley . Macmillan, New York 1935. German: Das Tal . Biblos, Budapest 1935.
  • The Road: In Search of America . Norton, New York 1937.
  • The Nineteen-Twenties: An Interior . In: The Paris Review , No. 6, Summer 1954. (Excerpt from the unpublished novel Paris Was Home ).
  • My Father and I . In: Commentary , Vol. 39, January 1965, pp. 55-65.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 56.
  2. ↑ Contrary to what Volker Weidermann stated in his book of burned books , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, Schalom and Nathan Asch were father and son. See: Daniel Warden (ed.): Twentieth Century American-Jewish Fiction , Dictionary of Literary Biography , Vol. 28, Gale Research, Detroit 1984. The Nathan Asch biography on the website of Winthrop University Nathan Asch (1902 -1964)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www2.winthrop.edu  
  3. ↑ Denis Brian: The True Gen. Grove Press 1988, p. 54.
  4. ↑ Volker Weidermann: Book of burned books. Cologne 2008, p. 212 f.
  5. ↑ Nathan Asch (1902–1964). In: Archives Nathan Asch Collection. From Winthrop.edu, accessed January 6, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Asch, Nathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1964
Place of death San Francisco