Arnold Zweig, internationally known German-Jewish writer, has been dismissed from his post as chairman of the literature department of the University of Humboldt in East Germany, according to reports received here today. The Stuttgart newspaper, Der Mittag, said that Dr. Zweig had been dismissed because he had refused to support the Communist regime’s anti-Israeli campaign.
Arnold Zweig, now 80 years old, was exiled from Germany at the outset of the Hitler regime and lived in Palestine from 1933 until the end of World War II when he returned to Germany. He took up residence in East Germany, and in 1957 the regime designated him president of the East Berlin Academy of Arts. Many of his novels deal with Jewish themes.
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