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    Title

  • Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss : pictured with books

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white ; 8 x 10

  • Date

    undated

  • Place of Publication

    New York

  • Depicted

    Blumenthal-Weiss, Ilse, 1899-1987

  • Subject

    Poets; Portraits, Women

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss Collection, AR 1020

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

The poet Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss was born in Berlin on October 14, 1899. Working as an orthopedic specialist she started early to write poetry and published her first volume of verse, “Gesicht und Maske”, in 1929. Her correspondence with Rainer Maria Rilke was published in “Briefe aus Muzot 1921 bis 1926” in 1935. Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss and her daughter survived the Holocaust in camps Westerbork and Theresienstadt, but her son perished in Mauthausen and her husband in Auschwitz. She immigrated to the United States in 1947 and was a highly respected scholar and poet in the German intellectual community of New York City. Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss died in Connecticut in 1987.

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Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss : pictured with books, Leo Baeck Institute, F 55447.