The Root and the Bough: The Epic of an Enduring People

Leo W. Schwarz

1949

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 recuperation. I shared with others the deep emotional reverberations evoked by the plight of the displaced persons imbedded in the devastation of Occupied…

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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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