Language:
English
Pages:
19
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
1994
Keywords:
Schreier, Erwin.
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Booksellers and bookselling.
;
Industrialists.
;
Jewish refugees.
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Journalists.
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Voyages and travels.
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World War, 1914-1918 Military life.
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Lawyers.
;
Berlin (Germany)
;
United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945.
;
Vienna (Austria)
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The biography of the author's father, Oscar Schreyer, covering approx. 1905-1993.
Abstract:
Father's World War I experience; early schooling; early interest in archeology; trips to Italy, Turkey and Palestine; work as journalist in Vienna; move to Berlin; friendship with Billy Wilder; return to Vienna in 1933; emigration to USA in 1939; unsuccessful business ventures; success with manufacture of decorative animal pins; later interest in book dealing.
Note:
Available on microfilm
,
English
,
Synopsis in file
URL:
http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=412500&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
