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German and Jewish Intellectual Émigré Collections
Personal and professional papers of German-speaking Émigré in the social sciences, humanities, and the arts and the organizations which assisted those who fled the Nazi regime.
In recognition of the serious scholarly interest in the mass migration of German speaking exiles from the Nazi regime, a German and Jewish Intellectual Émigré Collection was established in 1976 at the University at Albany, State University of New York. This growing collection has been developed since the 1970s through the efforts of the University Libraries and Professor John M. Spalek of the University's Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature Department
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Box 1 (1-correspondence), Folder 11
Correspondence, 1940-1963 0.25 cubic ft.
Contains correspondence with publishers relating to the author's struggles to find an american market for his works. Also contains correspondence relating to his escape from Europe in 1940 and to his campaign to free his son from East Germany during the 1950s. The correspondence is primarily with family members, especially with his son, Wolfgang Natonek.
This series contains correspondence with colleagues, clients of translations, and publishers. Noteworthy is the correspondence between Knight and co-author Joseph Fabry from 1940-1941, when Knight was in Shanghai and Fabry was already in the U.S. Also represented in the correspondence are: Jacques Barzun, Stefan Brecht (son of Bertolt Brecht), Hans Kelsen, illustrator Wolfgang Lederer, Edward Lowinsky, Thornton Wilder and Hans Zeisl.