Stephan Zweig, the famous Jewish author, celebrated his 50th. birthday yesterday. Since the death of Hugo von Hoffmansthal (a baptised Jew) and Arthur Schnitzler (the great Jewish writer who died last month), Stephan Zweig is the outstanding representative of the so-called Viennese school in literature. His first work, a book of poems, appeared about 20 years ago. He followed this with his monographs on Verlaine and Verhaeren, and his “Three Masters” (Balzac, Dickens, and Doestoiewski). He obtained his greatest successes, however, by his novels, some of which have become world famous and have been translated into most modern languages.
Zweig was in his youth connected with the Zionist movement and knew Theodore Herzl, and recently he has again taken an active part in Jewish activities, and has published many of his articles in various Jewish papers.
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