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The historian Peter Gay (né Fröhlich) was born in Berlin in 1923 and came to the United States via Cuba in 1941. As a cultural historian, he concentrated on the Enlightenment, Modernism and – as an admirer of Sigmund Freud – on “Psychohistory”. Peter Gay died in New York City in 2015.

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Peter Gay, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2199.