Amok (Zweig), 180
Amsterdam, xii, xiii, 166, 227, 254, 286, 290, 326, 392, 422–23
Andreas (Hofmannsthal), 236
Animals in Chains (Weiss), 136
Anschluss, xiv, 56, 207, 268, 311, 520, 523
Antibes, 175, 177–82
Antichrist, The (Roth), 308, 315–18, 323, 326–27, 337, 339, 341, 345, 348, 350, 356–57, 359–62, 365–67, 373, 375–77, 384, 424, 454
foreign editions of, 394–95
sales of, 382
translations of, 385, 394–95, 409–10
anti-Semitism, 63, 130, 223–24, 254, 285–86, 306, 371, 396, 399, 415, 508–9
“April” (Roth), 23, 60, 154, 186
Ararat, Mount, 88
Arbeiter Zeitung (AZ), 221, 276, 278, 281, 287, 288
Arlésienne, L’ (Bizet), 51–52
Asch, Schalom, 277–78, 376, 384, 405–6
Asnières, 72
Astrakan, 83
“At Schwannecke’s” (Roth), 71
Auden, W. H., 295, 364
Aufbau, Der, 80
Auguste (porter), 447
Austria, xiv, xv, 26, 28, 56, 105, 207, 252, 267, 273, 412, 520, 522–23
unemployment and inflation in, 4
uprising of Social Democrats in, 313
see also Anschluss
Austrian army:
Fourth Regiment of, 494, 517
JR’s service in, xi, xv, 4, 9, 13, 14, 56, 153, 220–21, 252, 254, 267, 310, 494
21st Jaegers of, 153, 221
24th Land Reserve of, 221
Austro-Hungarian Empire, 3, 34, 221, 230, 263, 361
“Auto-da-Fé of the Mind” (Roth), 119
“Ave Maria,” 16
Avignon, 44–45
Bach, Davidl, 287
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 16
Baden, 9, 11, 13, 381, 421
Badische Zeitung (BZ), 41, 63, 79
Baedeker, 3
Bailby, Léon, 399
Baku, 84
Balearics, 170
Balkans, xii, 93–94
Balzac, Honoré de, 72, 218, 285, 379
Basler National Zeitung, 326, 428
Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre, xv
Bauer, Ludwig, 266, 267
Bavaria, 56
Bavarian revolution of 1918, 87
Becher, Johannes R., 55, 57, 68
Beckmann, Max, 90, 92, 189–90
Beierle, Alfred, 25, 26, 293, 315, 404
Belgium, 257, 480, 482
Benda, Julien, 114, 115
Benedikt, Moritz, 383, 384
Benjamin, Walter, 35
Benn, Gottfried, 307, 430, 431
Berg, Alban, 438
Bergen-Belsen, 166
Berlin, xii, 4, 19, 21–29, 36, 37, 47, 55, 56, 60–61, 62, 64, 68, 72, 74, 93, 106, 204
Berliner Börsen Courier (BBC), 22, 26–27, 95, 96
Berliner Tageblatt (BT), 63, 65, 86, 91, 104, 126, 158, 172
Berlin stock market crash of 1927, 95, 96
Bernard Grasset publishing, 245, 426, 435, 436
Bernhard, Georg, 443, 445
Bertaux, Félix, xv, 136
letters of JR to, 101, 105–6, 109–10, 112–13, 117–20, 128–29, 130–32, 134–35, 199, 221–22, 234–39, 240–43, 290–91, 315–16, 384–85, 411, 522–23
Bertaux, Pierre, xv, 101, 110, 118, 128–29, 134, 199, 221, 237, 241, 243, 291
letters of JR to, 135–38
Betz, Maurice, 117, 118
Beware of Pity (Zweig), 293, 313, 514
Bible, 218, 434
Binding, Rudolph, 60
Bishop, Elizabeth, 33
Black Reichswehr, 79
Blei, Franz, 113, 118, 119, 120
Blind Mirror, The (Roth), 60, 186
Blue Angel, The (film), 385
Blum, Léon, 399
Blut und Boden literature, 367, 368
Bolshevism, 54, 82, 251, 306, 331, 380, 514
Bonaparte, Marie-Laetitia, 444, 445
Boniface, Saint, 511
Bonn, 65
Bonsels, Waldemar., 288
Brackwasser (Hauser), 109
Brandt, Willy, 96
Brazil, 33
Brecht, Bertolt, 21, 27, 68, 449
Brecht, Walter, 10, 11, 12, 13, 91–92, 207, 220
Breitbach, Joseph, 322, 336, 340
Brentano, Bernard von, xv, 176
JR as mentor of, 33, 35, 40–41, 42, 61–62, 65–67, 70, 75–76, 99
JR’s break with, 41, 137–38
letters of JR to, 33, 40–43, 46–48, 57–72, 75–76, 85–86, 89, 90, 96–97, 99, 102–3
Brentano, Clemens von, 41, 61
Brentano, Heinrich von, 66, 67, 90
Breslau, 91–92
British Labour Party, 282
British Museum, 322
Brittany, 76
Broczyner, Eduard, 523, 524
Brod, Max, 93, 94
Brodsky, Joseph, 489
Brody, 3–4, 7–8, 10, 25, 173, 310, 523
Bronsen, David, xvi, 3n, 4, 26, 96, 207, 210, 231n, 233n, 310, 444
Brun, Mr., 245, 436, 501
Brüning, Heinrich, 304, 307
Brussels, 138, 478, 480–83, 502, 507–8, 511
Buchhändler Börsenblatt, 251, 276, 278
Budapest, 153, 405, 454
Burckhardt, Jacob, 164, 166
Burgtheater, 12, 15, 27
Buried Candelabrum, The (Zweig), 324, 464, 476
Burke, Mme, 180–81
“Burning Secret” (Zweig), 368
Bust of the Emperor, The (Roth), 196, 378
Byelorussia, 84
Caesar, Julius, 131
Calvin, John, 481
Calvinism, 473, 476–77, 481
Cameroon, 195
Candide (journal), 490, 491–93, 496, 499
Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo, 121
Caspar Hauser (Wassermann), 265
Castellio gegen Calvin (Zweig), 324, 464, 467, 471, 472–74, 476–77, 515, 524
Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, 380
Catholic Illustrated (magazine), 473
Catholicism, 33, 39, 43–44, 66, 82–83, 178–80, 185, 207, 252, 254, 256, 391, 413–14, 482
JR’s profession of, 85, 88, 266, 411–12
Caucasus, 88, 91
Cenower, Leo, 526
censorship, 83, 85, 114, 204
Ce Soir, 523
Chamberlain, Neville, 361
Chess Novella (Zweig), 525
Child of All Nations (Keun), 489
Christiampoller, 6, 7
Christians, 5, 13, 56, 247, 296, 370, 381, 415, 417
Christian Science movement, 158, 164
Christian Socialist Party, 254, 255, 383
Christliche Ständestaat, 417, 418, 498, 499, 508, 509–10
City of Benares (ship), 517
Claassen, Eugen, 59, 60
Claassen and Goverts, 60
Claassen Verlag, 60
Claudel, Paul, 113
Collected Novellas (Zweig), 324
Collected Shorter Fiction (Roth), 420
Collected Stories (Roth), 60, 154, 224
Cologne, 71, 104, 115, 127
Columbus, Christopher, 164
Communism, 91, 170, 250, 277, 289, 300, 311, 330, 336, 380, 388, 413, 414, 496
Concordia, 156, 158
Confession of a Murderer (Roth), 196, 420, 424, 467, 471, 476, 477, 487
serial
rights to, 490, 497
translation of, 490
Coral Seller, The (Roth), 329, 378
Corticelli, A., 262
Coty, Françoise, 215, 216
Coudenhove, Ida, 137
Coudenhove-Kalergi, Richard Count, 137
Counter-Reformation, 99
“Couple of Days in Deauville, A” (Roth), 98
Cracow, 15, 27, 28, 131
Crane, Hart, 516
Csokor, Franz Theodor, 375, 402
Cure through the Spirit (Zweig), 183
Curtius, Ernst Robert, 134, 135
Czechoslovakia, 27, 454, 523
Dachau, 399
Daphne Herbst (Kolb), 112–13
Daudet, Alphonse, 366, 367
Daudet, Léon, 49
Deauville, 73, 98
Decisive Moments in History (Zweig), 487
de Gaulle, Charles, 44
De Gemeenschap press, xvi, 166, 489, 504
Degenfeld-Schonburg, Heinrich, Count, 527
Delacroix, Eugène, 160
de Lange, Gerard, 290–93, 301, 395, 404
death of, 419, 420, 451
de Marcos, Signora, 388
democracy, 50, 63, 82, 176
de Monzie, Anatole, 238, 239
de Sabata, Victor, 368
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (DAZ), 102, 103
Deutsches Volkstheater, 16
Deutschnationale Handlungsgehilfen, 193, 194
Deux Magots, 295, 319
“Devil and Miss Gwendoline, The” (Roth), 335
Dewall, Max von, 63, 65
Diagne, Mr., 238
Diaries (Roth), 103
Diebold,Bernhard, 63, 65, 68, 90
Dietrich, Marlene, 489
Dietz press, 58, 60
Dix, Otto, 36
Döblin, Alfred, 68, 71, 118, 119, 276, 277, 305, 308, 436
dogs, 5, 13, 45
Dohrn, Klaus, 418, 497, 498, 528
Dollfuss, Engelbert, 254, 255, 273, 311, 313
Nazi murder of, 383–84
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 82, 380
Drei Dichter ihres Lebens (Zweig), 121
Drill, Robert, 114, 115, 149
du Gard, Roger Martin, 442, 443
DuMont, Alfred Neven, 157, 158
East Galicia, 14
Ebermayer, Erich, 289, 290
Eddy, Mary Baker, 157, 158, 174
editing, JR on, 70
Egypt, 131
Eher, Franz, 381, 382
Eher-Verlag, 381–82
Ehrenburg, Ilya, 330, 331
Ehrenstein, Albert, 68
letters of JR to, 224–25
Einstein, Albert, 398, 415, 416
Emperor’s Tomb, The (Roth), 4, 196, 525
England, 174, 331, 392, 395, 428
Englischer Hof, 94
Erasmus, Desiderius, 365, 444
Erbe am Rhein, Das (Schickele), 198
Erstes Erlebnis (Zweig), 368
Essay about the Jews (Hebel), 195
Essen, 70, 114, 127
ethical relativism, 297
European Parliamentary Union, 137
European Review, 106
Expressionism, 94
Fabian (Kästner), 240
Faktor, Emil, 26, 27
Falke, Konrad, 501
Fascism, 74–75, 79, 289, 496, 512
Faulhaber, Michael von, 416
Faust (Goethe), xvii, 6, 12, 123, 217
Faust (Gounod), 12
Fear (Zweig), 309, 311–13, 467
Feblowicz, Mr., 497
Feiler, Artur, 63, 65, 114
Feuchtwanger, Lion, 155, 156, 171, 257, 278, 287, 288, 424, 496
Feux croisés, 235
Fingal, Stefan, xi, 143
Fischer, Bermann, 109, 110, 118, 138, 173, 276, 278, 429, 430, 443–44, 445
Fischer, Ernst, 287, 288, 289
Fischer, Samuel, 110, 120, 303, 307, 361, 445
see also S. Fischer Verlag
Flake, Otto, 16, 17
Flaubert, Gustave, 54, 100, 182, 218
Fles, Berthold, 516, 519
Flight Without End (Roth), xii, 4, 23, 36, 68, 94, 101, 105, 106, 115–16, 120, 139, 186, 221, 222
Florence, 94
Fontainebleau, 319
Forst-Battaglia, Otto, 220–21
Fouché, Joseph, 365
“Fourth Italy, The” (Roth), 126
France, xv, 27
JR in, 22, 33–36, 38–43, 95–101, 249
lack of respect in, 51–52
Midi in, 33
Nazi occupation of, 3, 242, 299
patriotism and nationalism in, 38
South of, xii, 39, 42, 48
spring in, 72, 81
theater and opera in, 51–52
Frank, Bruno, 448, 449, 465, 466
Frankfurt, xii, 35, 36, 41, 49, 54, 56, 58, 62, 68, 70, 73–75, 98, 104, 114, 188–92
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 35, 40, 65
Frankfurter Generalanzeiger, 80, 96
Frankfurter Hof (hotel), 88
Frankfurter Societätsdruckerei, 160
Frankfurter Zeitung (FZ), xii, 33–37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 48, 57, 60, 62–65, 68, 86, 87, 91, 101, 111, 297, 379
closing of, 272
feuilleton section of, 119, 122, 148, 206, 221
financial problems of, 63, 70
JR’s break with, 36, 429
JR’s debut at, 22
JR’s request for leave from, 53–56
JR’s work for, 33, 37, 43, 44, 45–47, 70, 73–75, 77–78, 100, 148, 159, 161–62, 168, 172, 191, 193, 204, 209, 221, 229, 380, 414, 456
JR urged to stay on at, 74–75
letters of JR to, 82–83
masthead and design of, 57
pecking order at, xiv, 34–35
sense of exceptionalism at, 35–36
typeface of, 57
Franta Slin (Weiss), 136
Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria, 56, 108, 170
French army, African soldiers in, 71
French language, 15, 16, 38, 39, 44, 45, 50, 70, 105, 111, 197, 319, 333
French Socialist Party, 399
Freud, Sigmund, 101, 158, 162, 170, 172, 174, 466, 474
Frey, Alexander Moritz, 108, 109
Frischauer, Paul, 428, 431, 446
Fuchs, Martin, 268, 329, 479
Fuite sans fin, 139
Furtwängler, Wilhelm, 512
Galicia, xii, 3, 4
Gallimard, 117, 118, 139
Gambetta, Léon-Michel, 72
Gandhi, Mohandas K. “Mahatma,” 495
Gartenlaube, 277
Geck, Rudolf, 63, 65, 87, 90
Gegenwart, Die, 40, 65
Geisenheyner, Max, 62, 64, 90
Georg, Manfred, 79, 80
George, Stefan, 298–99, 301
Georgia, 33
Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer (Weiss), 137
German army, 384
German Hilfskommittee, 426–27
German language, 4, 10, 12, 21, 40, 47, 65, 80, 108, 118, 123, 152, 207, 226, 325, 333
German Nationalist People’s Party, 259
Germany, Democratic Republic of (East Germany), 27
Germany, Nazi, 27, 29, 34, 36–37, 57, 115, 156, 204, 229–30, 234, 237, 240, 251, 259, 272, 278–89, 380–81
anti-Semitic practices in, 285–86, 306, 415
burning of the Reichstag in, 242
civil liberties sus
pended in, 242
concentration camps in, 166, 267, 368, 381, 399
euthanasia practiced in, 26
Night of the Long Knives in, 307
partitioning of, 44
plight of Jewish authors in, 381–82, 459
Reich Chamber of Culture in, 284
Vehmic murders in, 442
see also Holocaust
Germany, Weimar, xii, xv, 5, 22, 47–48, 91
inflation in, 55, 67
JR’s disparagement of, 40, 45–46, 47, 55–56, 59–60, 61–62, 66, 67, 71, 117, 131–32, 188, 197, 207
nonpayment of reparations to France by, 67
political killings (Fememorde) in, 79, 80
Reichstag elections in, 170
Ruhrgebiet sector of, 66, 67, 73
secret associations in, 109
Gert, Valeska, 81
Gessler, Otto, 71, 79
Gestapo, 183
Gide, André, 113, 114–15, 218, 250, 443
Gidon, Blanche, 236, 240, 242
French translations of JR’s works by, xv, 3, 196, 226, 229, 234, 235, 243–44, 333, 409–10
JR’s papers rescued by, 196
letters of JR to, 196, 213–16, 226, 243–44, 270, 309–10, 316, 319, 325–26, 327, 332–36, 340–41, 344, 366–67, 385, 387, 389–90, 392, 394, 398–99, 400, 405–10, 413, 462, 471–72, 479–81, 484–93, 496–98, 504–5, 507, 524, 527, 529
Gidon, Ferdinand, 196, 270, 272, 316, 319, 325, 340–41, 405
illness and death of, 398, 399, 400
letter of JR to, 492–93
Giehse, Therese, 407
Ginster (Kracauer), 109
Ginzburg, Harold, 342
Glaeser, Ernst, 155, 156, 171, 176
Glückliche Menschen (Kesten), 177
Goebbels, Joseph, 251, 279, 284, 298–99, 300, 370, 442, 508, 509
Goering, Hermann, 249, 287
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, xvii, 6, 123, 200, 208, 217, 247, 250, 268, 280
Gollancz, Victor, 339, 340, 342–46, 348, 352–54, 356, 357, 359–61, 363
letter of JR to, 345
Gorki, Maxim, 130, 412
Gottfarstein, Joseph, xi, 450, 451
Goverts, Henry, 60
Goverts Verlag, 60
Grasset publishing house, 426, 435, 436, 496, 499
Grenoble, 99
Grossmann, Stefan, 330, 331, 498, 499
Grübel, Fred, 196
Grübel, Heinrich, 17
letters of JR to, 8
Grübel, Paula, 6–7, 231
Holocaust murder of, 8
JR manuscripts saved by, 3
letters of Friedl Roth to, 25, 27
letters of JR to, 4, 7–17, 28
unmarried state of, 13
Grübel, Resia, 16, 17
letters of JR to, 6–9
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