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The Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin presents the year 1938 through the eyes of Jews, whose personal documents detail their experiences and the hardships they suffered as well as the growing tensions in Europe and diminishing hope for Jews in Germany and Austria.

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10

WEDNESDAY

Alfred Döblin in exile

Now a citizen of France, the author celebrates his 60th birthday

Paris

Barely one month after the collapse of the Weimar Republic, a “democracy without a user’s manual,” as he called it in “The German Masked Ball,” and one day after the Reichstag fire, the writer and Social Democrat Alfred Döblin left Germany. After a brief interlude in Switzerland, he moved to Paris with his wife and three sons in September 1933. Occasional publications with the German-language “publisher-in-exile” (Exilverlag) Querido (Amsterdam) yielded minimal income, and Döblin’s lack of French language skills were a major stumbling block to his gaining a foothold professionally. From 1936 on, the Döblins were French citizens. The 10th of August was the author’s 60th birthday.


TAGS: ARTISTS, AUGUST 10, DISPLACEMENT, EMIGRATION, FAMILY, IMMIGRATION, IMPOVERISHMENT, LANGUAGE SKILLS, PARIS, PHOTO, PROMINENT PEOPLE, REFUGEES, WEIMAR REPUBLIC

SOURCE

Institution:

Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin

Collection:

Portrait of Alfred Döblin

Original:

F 2087A

 

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August 9
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August 7
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