Dominated Man and His View of America: Two Generations of German-Jewish Writers and America

FAIN: FT-11936-74

Lothar Kahn
Connecticut State University System (New Britain, CT 06050-2439)

To examine the attitude toward America of two distinct generations of German-Jewish writers, the very first (Heine, Boerne, Lessman, Beer) which had only recently exited from the Ghetto and was aspiring to emancipation; the very last (Feuchtwanger, Doeblin, Werfel, Bruno Frank) which was the victim of Nazism, forced into exile, many to the U.S.