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HistoryFigure1900–1996

Region: Allemagne

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German-Jewish novelist and editor, a leading figure of the New Objectivity literary movement. Born in Pidvolochysk (Austro-Hungarian Empire) to a Jewish merchant family, he fled Germany in 1933, worked for the Amsterdam publisher Allert de Lange helping banned and exiled writers, then emigrated to New York in 1940.

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