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“... of anno domini, they might make up a single, almost seamless life: childhood (Czerniawski), youth (Sperber) and manhood (Lind). But such a life would be a monster of contradiction. Two of the authors write in their acquired language, English, and one has been translated from German; two are individualists, one is a subscriber to causes, a disciple and a ...”

“... now combined with sentimental images of Jews, flourished in postwar Germany. The novelist Manès Sperber was one of those repulsed by it. ‘Your philosemitism depresses me,’ he wrote to a colleague, ‘degrades me like a compliment that is based on an absurd misunderstanding … You overestimate us Jews in a dangerous fashion and insist on loving our ...”

“... of the 1950s, many of them disillusioned former Communists such as Koestler, Manès Sperber and Ignazio Silone, and the anti-anti-Communists of the 1960s, and prejudices ossified. The story has had a long afterlife. In 1974, in Art Forum, Eva Cockroft described American Abstract Expressionism as a ‘weapon in the Cold War’ and nine years ...”

“... from the Bohemian-Moravian-Hungarian immigration. Galicia provided remarkably few – Joseph Roth, Manes Sperber, Joseph Ehrlich, Siegfried Lipiner – considering that two-thirds of the Monarchy’s Jews lived there. Though almost uniformly hostile to German nationalism, they took it for granted that German was the appropriate language for an enlightened ...”