Language:
English
Year of publication:
2016
Titel der Quelle:
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen
Angaben zur Quelle:
117,1 (2016) 63-77
Keywords:
Öhmann, Emil,
;
Lasch, Agathe
;
Lewy, Ernst,
;
Jewish letters
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Discusses letters written by Jewish German linguists Agathe Lasch (1879-1942) and Ernst Lewy (1881-1966) to the Finnish scholar of German, Emil Öhmann (1894-1984). Lasch wrote her letters in 1936 and 1942, and Lewy wrote his between 1956-64. Based on these letters, reconstructs the relationship between the two linguists and their Finnish colleague, and discusses the conditions under which Lasch and Lewy lived and worked at the time of Hitler. Both were persecuted as Jews and sought to leave Germany. Lasch tried in vain to acquire a position at various universities abroad, including Finland. She was deported from Berlin to Riga in 1942 and murdered. Her letter to Öhmann from 1942, some months before her deportation, shows that despite the excluding anti-Jewish measures, she managed to keep herself up-to-date in her field of expertise. As opposed to her, Lewy succeeded in leaving Germany. He emigrated to Dublin in 1937, but never got over the loss of his personal library, which he had sent to Spain in 1936, believing he would find refuge there. Bitterness over the loss of his books is expressed in many of his letters.
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