Hans Elias (1907 to 1985) was an anatomist, an educator, a mathematician, a cinematographer, a painter, and a sculptor. Above all, he was a German of Jewish descent, who had to leave his home country because of the policies of the National Socialist (NS) regime. He spent his life in exile, first in Italy and then in the United States. His biography is exemplary for a generation of younger expat...

Putting pen to paper to outline the vicissitudes that characterised the life and professional career of Ciro Caldera, a brilliant colleague, who in 1924 directed the Ear Nose and Throat Clinic of the University of Pavia, seemed a due tribute. Overdue because to be fair and honest we cannot but put the records right posthumously for someone, who was victim of heavy persecutions and forced into e...

Among the very few medical authors who, like the Bard of the North or the Exile of the South, have realized the fable of Mid as, and converted paper into gold by the magic touch of their pens, Dr. Scudamore may, we think, be numbered. We do not speak of the direct transmutation, as it would be understood in Pater-Noster Rofr by the adepts in the trade. Far from it! Small indeed is the return of...

KHALED HOSSEINI has been widely acclaimed for his debut novel The Kite Runner, an international best-seller. The novel not only launched Hosseini into the limelight as an Afghan-American writer but also bridged the gap between Western literary audience and the culture of the Middle East. The novel is about the friendship of two Afghan boys through the decades, and Amir, the narrator is an expat...

“It is a very strange relationship.”1 Writing to his mother in January 1947, when the collaboration with Thomas Mann on Doktor Faustus was reaching its end, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno would still fi nd their connection impossible to describe. From today’s greater distance we in turn cannot presume to say defi nitively what it is that went on there. Certainly, a novel was written; certainly, a d...

After the death in 1934 of his father-in-law Samuel Fischer, founder well-known publishing house S. Fischer Berlin, Gottfried Bermann moved to Vienna with aim works prominent German-speaking Jewish and non-Jewish authors who could no longer publish National Socialist Germany. ‘Anschluss’ Nazi Germany March 1938 he fled Sweden help from Karl Otto Tor Bonnier, heads Albert Bonniers Förlag. Eagerl...