[Lewisohn, Ludwig] Herzl, Theodor.

Tagebücher 1895-1904. [Ludwig Lewisohn’s personal copy, with some annotations and several textmarkings / Heavily annotated inside rear covers].

3 Volumes. Berlin, Jüdischer Verlag, 1922 – 1923. 14 cm x 20.5 cm. 648 pages, 620 pages, 662 pages. Hardcover / Original Cloth. Good condition with only minor signs of wear. Slightly rubbed and minor stains on cover. Cover of the volume 1 is loose and 1-3pages are fixed with tape. Interesting markings and annotations in pencil throughout the books and endpaper/ pastedown. Name of Lewisohn signed on endpaper. German Edition of Herzl’s Diary.

Theodor Herzl (2 May 1860 – 3 July 1904) was a Jewish Austro-Hungarian journalist, playwright, political activist, and writer who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish immigration to Palestine in an effort to form a Jewish state. Though he died before its establishment, he is known as the father of the State of Israel. (Wikipedia)

Ludwig Lewisohn (May 30, 1882 – December 31, 1955) was a novelist, literary critic, the drama critic for The Nation and then its associate editor. He was the editor of New Palestine, an American Zionist journal. He taught at the University of Wisconsin and at Ohio State University as well as serving as professor of German and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University. Lewisohn produced some 40 full-length fiction and non-fiction books, nearly as many translations, wrote numerous magazine and journal articles and edited countless other written works.

Lewisohn was born in Berlin, Germany to a highly assimilated, upper-middle class Jewish family. His parents Jacques Lewisohn and Minna (Eloesser) immigrated to the United States in 1890. The family settled in St. Matthews, South Carolina and then in 1892 moved to Charleston. Lewisohn’s mother was the daughter of a rabbi, but when the family moved to America they settled in an area where there was not a practicing Jewish congregation. He was sent to a Methodist Sunday school to improve his English. He integrated well into the Methodist community and its church and subsequently became an active Methodist. After graduating with honors from the College of Charleston, he went to Columbia University in 1902 to continue with graduate work. He received the degree of A.M. in 1903.
In 1904 he was told by his advisers that a Jew would never be hired to teach English literature at an American university. The bitter irony in this advice led Lewisohn to return to Judaism and he became an outspoken critic of American Jewish assimilation. In 1948 Lewisohn was among the founding faculty members of Brandeis University where he taught until his death.

Following his graduation from Columbia, Lewisohn worked for Doubleday, Page & Co. in New York as a member of the editorial staff. The following year, 1905, he left Doubleday to become a free-lance magazine writer. In 1910, with the strong recommendation of his close friend William Ellery Leonard he became an instructor of German at the University of Wisconsin. He remained there for one year and then accepted the position of professor of German language and literature at Ohio State University. He served at the University until 1917 when war time sentiments forced his separation. Upon leaving Ohio State University Lewisohn became drama critic at the Nation and then was promoted to associate editor in 1920. He continued to write for The Nation until 1924. He translated from the German into English works of Gerhart Hauptmann, Jakob Wassermann and Franz Werfel.

In 1943 he became the editor of The New Palestine (magazine), working with them until 1948. He then began his work at Brandeis University. Lewisohn was a member of the Jewish Academy of Arts and Sciences and was an honorary secretary of the Zionist Organization of America. Lewisohn strongly supported the Zionist cause and he lectured and wrote widely on its behalf.

When he first came to Columbia, Lewisohn had an affair with George Sylvester Viereck. He was married three times; to Mary Arnold in 1906, to Edna Manley in 1940 and to Louise Wolk in 1944. His first two marriages ended in divorce and he was survived in death by his third wife. Lewisohn also had a son, James Elias Lewisohn, by Thelma Spear, a concert singer with whom he had lived and had a relationship with for many years. Lewisohn died in Miami Beach, Florida on December 31, 1955. (Wikipedia)

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Ludwig Lewisohn (geboren 30. Mai 1882 in Berlin; gestorben 31. Dezember 1955 in Miami Beach) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Ludwig Lewisohns jüdische Eltern Jacques und Minna Lewisohn emigrierten 1890 aus wirtschaftlichen Gründen in die USA. Sie wohnten zunächst bei Verwandten in St. Matthews, South Carolina und dann in Charleston. Die Familie konvertierte zu den Methodisten, und Ludwig besuchte eine methodistische Schule. Er absolvierte das College of Charleston und studierte danach Literatur an der Columbia University, wo er 1903 einen M.A. erwarb. Eine Promotion eines Juden in englischer Literatur sei aussichtslos, wurde ihm erklärt, weil er danach ohnehin keine Stelle im Lehr- und Wissenschaftsbetrieb bekommen würde. Das veranlasste ihn, zur jüdischen Religion zurückzukehren, aber auch in den jüdischen Gemeinden die Frage nach den von der Mehrheitsgesellschaft gesetzten Grenzen der Assimilation aufzuwerfen. The Island Within (1928) war einer seiner autobiografisch gefärbten Romane zu diesem Thema.

1908 erschien mit Unterstützung Theodore Dreisers sein erster Roman The Broken Snare, der die sexuelle Lust thematisierte, Lewisohns zweites literarisches Hauptthema. Lewisohn interessierte sich für die Psychoanalyse und war Analysand von Abraham Brill. Er stand im Briefwechsel mit Sigmund Freud

Lewisohn arbeitete ab 1910 als Deutschlehrer an der University of Wisconsin, von 1913 bis 1917 an der Ohio State University. Er übersetzte in dieser Zeit Werke von Gerhart Hauptmann, Hermann Sudermann und Rainer Maria Rilke und verfasste die Literaturstudien The Modern Drama und The Spirit of Modern German Literature. Er wurde nach Kriegseintritt der USA als Kriegsgegner und deutschfreundlich entlassen. Von 1919 bis 1924 war er Literaturredakteur und Theaterkritiker und später auch Mitherausgeber bei der Wochenzeitung The Nation. Von 1924 bis 1934 hielt er sich in Europa, vornehmlich in Paris, auf, wo er mit der New Yorkerin Thelma Spears (1903–1968) einen Salon führte, und sie den Sohn James Elias (1934–2015) bekamen. Seine Frau Mary Crocker, die er 1906 geheiratet hatte, wollte 1922 nicht in die Scheidung einwilligen, und so bekam er Schwierigkeiten mit dem amerikanischen Konsulat in Paris. In dem Rosenkrieg verhinderte Crocker bis zu ihrem Tod 1946 das Erscheinen des 1926 veröffentlichten Romans The Case of Mr. Crump in den USA. Lewisohn war später noch zweimal verheiratet.

1925 besuchte er die jüdischen Siedlungen in Palästina und wurde ein Verfechter des Zionismus. 1934 zurück in den USA hielt er Reden gegen den Nationalsozialismus und für die Heimstatt Israel. 1944 wurde er Herausgeber der offiziellen zionistischen Zeitschrift The New Palestine. Im Jahr 1948 gehörte Lewisohn zu den Gründern der Brandeis University, an der er bis zu seinem Tod Literatur lehrte. Er verfasste über 40 Bücher, darunter mehrere autobiografische Schriften, und gab Otto Ranks Der Künstler in der englischen Übersetzung Art and Artist heraus. Er übersetzte auch Literatur aus dem Französischen (The Poets of Modern France). Lewisohn übersetzte Franz Werfels Das Lied von Bernadette und Der Weg der Verheißung ins Englische, ebenso Werke anderer Flüchtlinge wie die von Soma Morgenstern und Martin Buber, die er aus dem Manuskript übersetzte. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Catalogue No.8 – Judaica Collection · Jewish History · Jewish History – Rare · Judaica · Judaica – Collection · Judaica – Rare · Judaism · Judentum
• Language: Deutsch
• Inventory Number: 44925AB

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