After 1933, New York City gave shelter to many leading German and German-Jewish intellectuals. This compendium, adopting the title of a volume published by Klaus and Erika Mann in 1939, explores the impact the US, and NYC in particular, had on these authors as well as the influence they in turn exerted on US intellectual life. Moreover, it addresses the transformations that took place in the exiled intellectuals' thinking when it was translated intoEnglish and addressed to an American audience. Among the individuals presented in this volume, are such prominent names as T.W. Adorno, H. Arendt, W. Benjamin, E. Bloch, B. Brecht, S. Kracauer, the Mann family, S. Morgenstern, and E. Panofsky. The authors of the essays in this compendium were free to choose the angleand aspect deemed best to illuminate the given intellectual's work. Acclaimed NYC photographer Fred Stein, himself a German exile,produced numerous portraits of exiled intellectuals and artists. A selection of these compelling portraits is reproduced together in this book for the first time.

After 1933, New York City gave shelter to many leading German and German-Jewish intellectuals. This compendium, adopting the title of a volume published by Klaus and Erika Mann in 1939, explores the impact the US, and NYC in particular, had on these authors as well as the influence they in turn exerted on US intellectual life. Moreover, it addresses the transformations that took place in the exiled intellectuals' thinking when it was translated intoEnglish and addressed to an American audience. Among the individuals presented in this volume, are such prominent names as T.W. Adorno, H. Arendt, W. Benjamin, E. Bloch, B. Brecht, S. Kracauer, the Mann family, S. Morgenstern, and E. Panofsky. The authors of the essays in this compendium were free to choose the angleand aspect deemed best to illuminate the given intellectual's work. Acclaimed NYC photographer Fred Stein, himself a German exile,produced numerous portraits of exiled intellectuals and artists. A selection of these compelling portraits is reproduced together in this book for the first time.
Eckart Goebel, New York University, USA; Sigrid Weigel, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

Introduction
"Sticking to our language" / "an unserer Sprache festhalten:" Adorno in NYC
Adorno's Monsters
Sounding Through - Poetic Difference - Self-Translation: Hannah Arendt's Thoughts and Writings Between Different Languages, Cultures, and Fields
From Königsberg to Little Rock: Hannah Arendt and the Concept of Childhood
Erich Auerbach's Second Exile
Walter Benjamin's Farewell to Europe
No Place Yet: Ernst Bloch's Utopia in Exile
Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Losey, and Brechtian Cinema
"Without knowing America, you cannot say anything valid about democratic politics." Hermann Broch and the Ethics of Exile
"Lesen Sie before the letter:" Oskar Maria Graf in New York
Eclipse of Reason: Max Horkheimer's New York Lectures, 1944
I'm not there: New York as Displaced Psychogeography in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage
Bodies: Ernst H. Kantorowicz
Siegfried Kracauer: The Film Historian in Exile
Identifying the impulse: Alfred Lion Founds the Blue Note Jazz Label
A Flaschenpost Recast: Leo Lowenthal's Late Writings
On An Eastward Trajectory Toward Europe: Karl Lowith's Exiles
Ethics of Imagination: On Erika Mann's Works in Exile
You Can't Go Home Again: Exiles in Klaus Mann's The Volcano
Voyage with Don Quixote: Thomas Mann between European Culture and American Politics
The Returns of Herbert Marcuse
Exile is a Flop: Soma Morgenstern over Central Park
Stranger in Paradise: Erwin Panofsky's Expulsion to the Academic Parnassus
The Flight Into Orgonomy: Wilhelm Reich in New York
Reinventing the Canonical: The Radical Thinking of Jacob Taubes
"Almost American:" Ernst Toller Abroad
"Inter, but not national:" Vilém Flusser and the Technologies of Exile
Fred Stein (1909-1967): A Retrospective
Portraits
About the Authors