Aus meinem Leben mit Ernst Cassirer
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: ger
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Antisemitism; Politics and government; Emigration and immigration
Description: Description of her marriage with Ernst Cassirer, his fight for a professorship in the "Kaiserreich" and his relationship to Hermann Cohen; anti-Semitic experiences in Weimar Germany; his time as the only Jewish rector of a German university; the various stages of emigration (includes photography of E. Cassirer, index and bibliography).
Notes: Mimeograph of manuscript typed on paper in German.

Inscribed to Paul Oskar Kristeller, New York, September 1951; signed by the author.

With frontispiece portrait of Ernst Cassirer added.

From the library of Edith Lind Kristeller, with her ownership stamp.

Published edition: Mein Leben mit Ernst Cassirer. Hildesheim, Germany. Gerstenberg. 1981. 362 pages.

Toni Cassirer, née Bondy, was born in Vienna in 1883. She married her cousin, the famous philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), who was for two years the rector of Hamburg University (1929-1930). They emigrated to England in 1933, to Sweden in 1935, and in 1941 to the USA. When her husband died in 1945, she put much work into publishing and translating his work.

German.

Binding: Bound in cloth.