Harry Zohn

Background

Harry Zohn was born on November 21, 1923 in Vienna, Austria; the son of Abraham Leon Zohn and Adele (Awin) Zohn. Harry came to the United States in 1940 and in 1945 became a naturalized citizen.

Education

Harry Zohn went to the Sperlgymnasium in the Leopoldstadt. He graduated from Suffolk University in Boston with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1946. Harry received his Master of Arts in Education from Clark University and a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University. In 1976 he was awarded the Doctor of Letters from Suffolk University.

Career

Zohn taught at Brandeis University from 1951 to 1996. From 1969 he had been a professor of German. He also was chairman of the department of Germanic and Slavic languages twice for thirteen years. Harry Zohn was an adviser to German majors and coordinated scholarship programs of the German government. He also was an executive director of the Goethe Society of New England.

Zohn authored, edited and translated about 40 books. He wrote Karl Kraus and Austriaca and Judaica: Essays and Translations. He also translated dozens of works from German; some of these books include Sigmund Freud’s Delusion and Dream, The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl, and Hermann Langbein’s Against All Hope. He edited and translated a Tucholsky anthology and a collection of his satirical writings. Zohn was also the general editor of Austrian Culture series.

Achievements

• Harry Zohn has been listed as a notable author, educator by Marquis Who's Who. In 1960 Zohn received an Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 1994 he got a Gold Medal of Honor from the city of Vienna.

Works

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  • In These Great Times: A Karl Kraus
  • Karl Kraus and the Critics 1997
  • Karl Kraus 1971

Membership

Harry Zohn was a member of American Association Teachers German, American Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Center, Austro-American Association Boston, International Stefan Zweig Society, International Arthur Schnitzler Association, Austrian Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Club, International Franz Werfel Society, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Center German-Speaking Writers Abroad and New England Modern Language Association.

Personality

Harry Zohn played the viola with the Brandeis Symphony Orchestra.

Interests

• playing the viola

Connections

Harry Zohn married Judith Ann Gorfinkle on September 3, 1962. The couple had two children - Steven David and Marjorie Eve.

Father:

Abraham Leon Zohn

Mother:

Adele (Awin) Zohn

Spouse:

Judith Ann Gorfinkle

child:

Steven David Zohn

child:

Marjorie Eve Zohn