Creator Bio
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.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Memoirs of My People through a Thousand Years
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…
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The Root and the Bough: The Epic of an Enduring People
For the past few years, both in France and Germany, I was awed by the valiant struggle of people who, though only recently liberated from indescribable cruelty, exhibited extraordinary powers of…