Heilbut, Anthony. Exiled in paradise : : German refugee artists and intellectuals in America, from the 1930s to the present / [electronic resource] / Anthony Heilbut ; with a new postscript.. — 1st California Pbk.. — Berkeley, Calif. : : University of California Press,, 1997.. — xiv, 524 p. ; 23 cm. — (Weimar and now : German cultural criticism ;) 16. - Weimar and now ; 16. .

Originally published: Boston : Beacon Press, 1983.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Berolina -- In transit -- Becoming American -- The academic welcome -- Left and right -- New opiates of the people -- The line of most resistance -- The state of having escaped: Theodor W. Adorno -- Not a "nice guy": Bertolt Brecht -- Advise and affirm -- Entrepreneurs of images -- A club for discontented Europeans -- Er gibt den ton an -- The loneliness of Thomas Mann -- The victims start judging -- The scientists and the bomb -- From undeutsch to un-American -- "I somehow don't fit": Hannah Arendt -- Heroes of the 1960s.



ISBN: 0520210980 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780520210981 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 97012255

Nat. Bib. No.: 99,G02,0418 dnb

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
Geschichte 1933-1970.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Jews, German--Intellectual life.--United States
Jewish refugees--United States.
Political refugees--United States.
Drittes Reich.
Exil.
Exilschriftsteller.
Künstler.
Wissenschaftler.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Ethnic relations.
United States--Emigration and immigration.
Germany--Emigration and immigration.
United States--Civilization--Jewish influence.
Deutsche.
USA.

LC Class. No.: E184.J5 / H534 1997

Dewey Class. No.: 973/.044924