Harry Zohn
Harry Zohn · Arts & Literature
Literary & drama critic
1923, Vienna, Austria — 2001, Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Austria · United States
Harry Zohn is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Literary & drama critic
Zohn was an Austrian-American scholar and translator, a professor of German at Brandeis University, who did much to bring German-Jewish literature and thought to English-speaking readers, including celebrated translations of Walter Benjamin, Karl Kraus and Theodor Herzl. He was a leading authority on Austrian-Jewish culture and Zionism. Born into a Jewish family in Vienna, he fled Nazi Austria in 1939.
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Literary & drama critic
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