Biographical/Historical Information
The author, essayist, and literary critic Moritz Heimann was born in Werder, Brandenburg, into an Orthodox Jewish family in 1868. From 1895 to 1923, he was the chief literary adviser to the Berlin publishing house “S. Fischer” and worked with promising authors such as Gerhart Hauptmann, Thomas Mann, Jakob Wassermann, and many others, wielding great influence on the German literature in the early 20th century. Moritz Heimann died in Berlin in 1925.
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Moritz Heimann, 1911, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2416.