After 1933, New York City gave shelter to many leading German and German-Jewish intellectuals. This compendium, adopting the title of a volume published by Klaus and Erika Mann in 1939, explores the impact the US, and NYC in particular, had on these authors as well as the influence they in turn exerted on US intellectual life. Moreover, it addresses the transformations that took place in the exiled intellectuals thinking when it was translated intoEnglish and addressed to an American audience. Among the individuals presented in this volume, are such prominent names as T.W. Adorno, H....

This compendium explores the impact the US, and NYC in particular, had on exiled German and German-Jewish intellectuals after 1933. It addresses the transformations that took place in the exiled intellectuals thinking when it was translated into English and addressed to an American audience.