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    Title

  • Alfred Wolfenstein in a library

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white ; 17 x 22.5 centimeters

  • Date

    undated

  • Depicted

    Wolfenstein, Alfred, 1888-1945

  • Subject

    Portraits, Men; Authors; Poets

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Alfred Wolfenstein Collection, AR 2817

  • Accession Number

  • URL

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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Citation

Alfred Wolfenstein in a library, Leo Baeck Institute, F 3509.