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Biographical/Historical Information
Alfred Wolfenstein was born in Halle in 1888. After his family moved to Berlin, he earned a law degree and became a writer. He published several volumes of poetry, as well as novellas, stories, and plays. From 1916 to 1922 he resided in Munich, but later returned to Berlin. He fled to Prague, then to Paris, in 1939, where he was imprisoned for three months. In 1945, suffering from heart disease and mental illness, he committed suicide.
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Alfred Wolfenstein : in a library, Leo Baeck Institute, F 3509.