Exiled in paradise : German refugee artists and intellectuals in America, from the 1930s to the present /
Heilbut, Anthony,author.
Facsimile reprint of 1997 edition.
Publication date from publisher's website.
Originally published: Boston : Beacon Press, 1983.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Europe to America. -- Berolina -- In transit -- Becoming American -- The academic welcome -- Left and right -- Europe in America. -- New opiates of the people -- The line of most resistance -- The state of having escaped: Theodor W. Adorno -- Not a "nice guy": Bertolt Brecht -- Advise and affirm -- Entrepreneurs of images -- A club for discontented Europeans -- Er gibt den ton an -- The loneliness of Thomas Mann -- The return of the enemy aliens. -- The victims start judging -- The scientists and the bomb -- From undeutsch to un-American -- "I somehow don't fit": Hannah Arendt -- Heroes of the 1960s.
Jews, German
Jewish refugees
Political refugees