Exiled in Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America from the 1930s to the PresentA brilliant look at the writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholars—ranging from Bertolt Brecht to Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann, and Fritz Lang—who fled Hitler's Germany and how they changed the very fabric of American culture. In a new postscript, Heilbut draws attention to the recent changes in reputation and image that have shaped the reception of the German exiles. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983 with a paperback in 1997. |
Contents
Berolina | 3 |
In Transit | 23 |
Becoming American | 48 |
The Academic Welcome | 72 |
Left and Right | 101 |
Europe in America | 117 |
New Opiates of the People | 119 |
The Line of Most Resistance | 135 |
A Club for Discontented Europeans | 229 |
Er Gibt den Ton An | 261 |
The Loneliness of Thomas Mann | 298 |
The Victims Start Judging | 325 |
The Scientists and the Bomb | 350 |
From Undeutsch to UnAmerican | 364 |
Heroes of the 1960s | 438 |
Postscript | 481 |
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