He Tried to Reinvent Himself as a Catholic. The Germans Still Saw Him as a Jew
Living in exile in Los Angeles during World War II, Alfred Döblin stunned his fellow German émigrés with his conversion to Catholicism – the main theme of his 1949 memoir. But after returning to his homeland, he failed to reinvent himself
Abraham Rubin
Abraham Rubin
In an undated letter from the early 1950s, Erna Döblin sought to confront her husband, the celebrated modernist writer Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) and author of the renowned Weimar-era novel “Berlin Alexanderplatz,” with the unpleasant facts of his “homecoming” to postwar West Germany.
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