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Born in Bodenbach, Bohemia [Děčín, Czech Republic], May 31, 1905, Josef Soudek studied political economy in Frankfurt a. M., Berlin and Heidelberg. From 1928 to 1936, he lived in Frankfurt where he worked for the "Frankfurter Zeitung". In 1936, he and his wife Grete Soudek and her mother, Else Heimann emigrated to the U.S, where he taught at the economics department of Queens College. Josef Soudek died in New York in 1993.
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3 portraits of Josef Soudek, Leo Baeck Institute, F 38982.