Memoirs of My People through a Thousand Years

Leo W. Schwarz

1943

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The anthologist, like the historian and the novelist, is an autobiographer is disguise. He is driven into the jungles and watering places of literature by instinct as well as by design. The ultimate form in which he exhibits his loot is dictated not only by public taste; it is above all the expression of those fundamental impulses and habits that…

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Leo W. Schwarz

1906–1967

Leo Walder Schwarz was born in New York City and attended Harvard University. After serving in World War II, Schwarz remained in Germany, helping Jewish refugees in the Munich area in his capacity as director of the Joint Distribution Committee. He later wrote The Redeemers (1953), which chronicles the fates of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. A professor of Judaic Studies at Iowa University from 1960 to 1962, Schwarz is best known as an editor of anthologies of Jewish memoirs and literature.

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