Lion Feuchtwanger, world famous novelist, died here yesterday at the age of 74. Born in Germany, he came to the United States in 1941. He died in Mt. Sinai Hospital here following an operation.
A confirmed pacifist whose anti-war poems were published in Germany as early as 1914, Mr. Feuchtwanger was honored by being on the first list of intellectuals to be deprived of German citizenship when the Nazis came to power. He left Germany and settled in France but was forced to flee again when the French Republic fell, going to Lisbon and then the United States
Among his best known works are “Jew Suess”–subsequently distorted by Nazi film-makers who converted it into a vehicle of anti-Semitic propaganda; “The Oppermanns;” “Success” and “Josephus.” He also wrote many critical articles, poetic dramas and translated Aristophanes plays from the Greek.
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