Salamon Dembitzer Collection 1908-1975

By Dembitzer, Salamon

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Title:	Salamon Dembitzer Collection 1908-1975
Author:	Dembitzer, Salamon
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Language:	German
Subject:	Dembitzer, Salamon, 1888-1964, Jews, East European, Authors, Exiled
Collections:	Historical and Literary Papers
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Description
Hertha Dembitzer, 1975; H. O. Willrich, 1977; The main focus of the Salamon Dembitzer Collection is the professional life of this writer. It is comprised of manuscripts, correspondence, clippings, personal documents, and a few photographs; Series I: Personal holds materials that describe the person of Salamon Dembitzer. Much of this includes biographies of his professional life, both published and unpublished. In addition, other types of documents to be found here include photographs, information on restitution for manuscripts left behind in Belgium, and a few clippings about his grandfather; Correspondence is located in Series II. Most of the correspondence is comprised of individuals' opinions on Dembitzer's writing. Well-known persons whose letters will be found here include Thomas Mann, Julius Bab, Martin Buber, Philipp Scheidemann, Primo Levi, and former Australian Deputy Prime Minister H.V. Evatt. Other types of correspondence include information on funding he received from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany and correspondence concerning the copyright for his novels; The largest series of this collection is Series III: Writings. Here researchers will find manuscripts of novels, short stories, articles, and poetry as well as published reviews of his work. Newspaper clippings and publications containing his shorter works are also in this series. Manuscripts of his works, however, make up the bulk of this series. Manuscripts of his Yiddish poetry, both handwritten and typed, will be found here as well as manuscripts of his novels. Many of the novel-length manuscripts appear to be earlier versions of some of his published books; Researchers should note that there is very little information in this collection on Salamon Dembitzer's personal and family life, other than what may be gleaned from the manuscripts of his novels and short stories, which often contain autobiographical references; See Inventory list; Salamon Dembitzer, the son of Herschel and Amalia Dembitzer, was born in Cracow (now Kraków, Poland), at that time part of Austria-Hungary, on December 29, 1888. His grandfather Chajim Nathan Dembitzer was a Talmud scholar and a well-known historian; Dembitzer spent his earliest years in a small village named Lancut. At 15 he left school and came to Germany, first to Frankfurt, then to Kassel, where he worked as an editor for the Kasseler Volksblatt. In 1910 he went to Berlin, returning there several times until he had to flee it in March 1933; By the time he was 16 years old Dembitzer already had some of his poetry published. His earliest writings were written in Yiddish, not only with Hebrew letters but also with Latin. Some of his poetry was set to music. Prior to the first World War, Dembitzer lived in Antwerp, but had to return to Germany once the war broke out. Once more he went to Berlin, where his first work of prose Aus engen Gassen, a collection of essays, appeared in 1914; At the end of 1915 Dembitzer had left Berlin once more and went to Holland where he wrote for two large Amsterdam newspapers, Algemeen Handolsblad and Het Volk. While in Amsterdam he also wrote some articles for the German newspaper Vorwärts, and became a literary writer for this paper when he returned to Berlin in 1920. He also authored articles for several other papers, including Die Welt am Montag, the Berliner Tagblatt, and the Viennese Arbeiter-Zeitung. His short stories especially were often published in German newspapers; In 1930 Salamon Dembitzer's first novel, Bummler and Bettler, was published as well as a three-act play called Wohlfahrtsamt. In March 1933 Dembitzer fled Berlin for Holland, and would continue to travel through Europe over the next several years in his attempts to escape the Nazis. He stayed in the Netherlands and Belgium before landing in Portugal where he eventually received a visa to New York in 1941. Most of Dembitzer's novels contain autobiographical elements, and a description of this fli

Summary
Contributor: Leo Baeck Institute Archives ; The digitization of this title was sponsored by Leo Baeck Institute Archives

Excerpt
Additional Subjects: Yiddish literature; Bab, Julius 1880-1955; Buber, Martin 1878-1965; Mann, Thomas 1875-1955; Bibliographies; Poetry