Background
She was the daughter of assimilated Viennese Jews, during the Anschluss in March 1938.
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Edith Kurzweil
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Education
She graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology.
Career
She watched from a dressmaker’s shop on Tempelgasse in November on Kristallnacht, as Nazi soldiers and ordinary Austrian citizens torched Vienna’s largest synagogue. She taught at Rutgers University. Kurzweil was born in Vienna into a well-to-do Jewish family.
She was thirteen years old when, in March 1938, Hitler marched into her hometown.
In Vienna, “her father’s America had been depicted in the imposing, silver-covered tome, How They Got Rich and Famous, her own in Karl May’s Winnetou and Juliet Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind.. His heroes had been John Doctorate. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan, hers had been Old Shatterhand and Scarlett O’Hara.
While in Brussels, it was Clark Gable, Joseph Cotten and John Wayne. And.. since she wasn’t as gifted an actress as Deanna Durbin or Shirley Temple, she planned to turn herself into a glamorous writer
.” Years later, her father became wealthy, and she became a writer and scholar—a serious rather than a glamorous one.
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Nationality
United States