Description A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer\'s flight, persecution, and clandestine life in Wartime France.
Singer is Scheyer\'s step-grandson, a writer, and translator..
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He died in France in 1949.
A personal friend of Stefan Zweig, in his own lifetime he published three books of travel writing, and three volumes of literary-historical essays.
About the Author Moriz Scheyer (1886-1949) was arts editor of one of Vienna\'s main newspapers from 1924 until his expulsion in 1938.
Singer, Scheyer\'s step-grandson, who has translated and provided an epilogue.
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Recently, a carbon copy was found in the family\'s attic by P.
Or thought he did.
After Scheyer\'s death in 1949, his stepson, disliking the book\'s anti-German rhetoric, destroyed the manuscript.
Tracing events from the Anschluss in Vienna, Through life in Paris and unoccupied France, including a period in a French concentration camp, contact with the Resistance, and clandestine life in a convent caring for mentally disabled women, he gives an extraordinarily vivid account of the events and experience of persecution.
In 1943, while hiding in France, Scheyer began drafting what was to become this book.
The occupation of the Nazis forced him from both job and home.
As arts editor for one of Vienna\'s principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city\'s foremost artists, and was an important literary journalist.
Description A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer\'s flight, persecution, and clandestine life in Wartime France
