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Soma Morgenstern was born in Galicia in 1890. He studied law at the University of Vienna and served in World War I. From 1921 to 1928 he lived in Berlin, writing mostly book reviews, and then again in Vienna as a reporter for the Frankfurter Zeitung. Morgenstern’s first novel, “Der Sohn des verlorenen Sohnes” (The son of the lost son) was published in Berlin in 1935, the first part of the trilogy, “Funken im Abgrund”. Morgenstern left Vienna in 1938 and fled to Paris, where he shared an apartment with Joseph Roth; he then travelled to Marseille, Casablanca, and Lisbon, arriving finally in New York in 1941. 1946-1950, he re-wrote the whole trilogy, which was published as "Sparks in the Abyss" in the U.S. Soma Morgenstern died in New York in 1976.

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Portrait of Soma Morgenstern, Leo Baeck Institute, F 001 AR 6350.