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The author, journalist and satirist Karl Kraus was born in Bohemia in 1874. In his periodical “Die Fackel”, Kraus attacked relentlessly German and Austrian culture, press, and politics, from the journal’s first appearance in 1899, through 922 irregularly issued numbers until 1936. Karl Kraus died in Vienna in 1936.

The photographer Trude Fleischmann was born in Vienna in 1895 and opened her first studio in 1920. It was a favorite haunt of artists and intellectuals alike until 1938, when she escaped Nazi regime and emigrated to New York, where she resumed her studio work in 1940. After a sojourn in Switzerland, Trude Fleischmann died in Brewster, NY in 1990.

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Karl Kraus / photograph by Trude Fleischmann, Leo Baeck Institute, F 11516.