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    Title

  • Salamon Dembitzer; Sydney, Australia

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white

  • Date

    1956

  • Place of Publication

    [Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)]

  • Summary

    Seated portrait of the writer Salamon Dembitzer in Sydney, Australia.

  • Depicted

    Dembitzer, Salamon, 1888-

  • Subject

    Authors; Poets; Portraits, Men

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Salamon Dembitzer Collection, AR 4212

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

The author and poet Salamon Dembitzer was born in Cracow (Kraków, Poland) in 1888. As a teenager he moved to Germany, first to Frankfurt and then to Kassel, where he worked as an editor for the Kasseler Volksblatt. At age 16, some of his poetry was already published. Until the 1930s, Dembitzer worked for several newspapers in Amsterdam, Berlin and Vienna, and continued publishing his poems and - starting in 1930 - his novels and dramas. In 1941, he moved to New York and later to Sydney, Australia. In 1958, Salamon Dembitzer moved to Lugano, Switzerland, where he died in 1964.

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Salamon Dembitzer; Sydney, Australia, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2083.