Lion Feuchtwanger (M / Germany, 1884-1958), novelist

Lion Feuchtwanger (1884-1958) was a German Jewish novelist. Born in Munich, Feuchtwanger served in the German Army in WW1. As a Jew and a leftist sympathizer, he was a strong opponent of the rising Nazi party. When Hitler became chancellor, he was on a speaking tour of America. He moved to France, while his German house was ransacked and his books banned and burned all around Germany. When the Germans invaded France in 1940, Feuchtwanger was imprisoned in an internment camp from which, however, he was able able to escape. Through Spain he reached Lisbon, Portugal where he immediately sailed to America. He would remain in the United States until his death on December 21, 1958.

Works

Novels

• (++) Die jüdische Krieg (Josephus / 1932 Feuchtwanger), novel
  • Josephus (1932 Feuchtwanger), novel (English ed.)

• (++) Die Söhne (The Jew of Rome / 1935 Feuchtwanger), novel
  • The Jew of Rome (1935 Feuchtwanger), novel (English ed.)

• Der falsche Nero (The False Nero / 1936 Feuchtwanger), novel
  • The False Nero = Der falsche Nero (1937 @1936 Feuchtwanger / Muir), novel English ed.)

• (++) Der Tag wird kommen (Josephus and the Emperor / 1942 Feuchtwanger), novel
  • The Day Will Come (1942 Feuchtwanger), novel (English ed.)

Biography

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