biography
pronunciation:
[brod]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1884–1968)
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| biography:
| Jewish writer and cultural philosopher, born in Prague, Czech Republic. A committed Zionist, he emigrated to Palestine in 1939. Previously he had worked as a civil servant and literary critic, championing the work of his friends Kafka and Werfel. His wide-ranging prose harks back to Austrian as well as Jewish traditions, and favoured subjects are history, religion, and love. His novels include the historical Tycho Brahes Weg zu Gott (1916), Die Frau, die nicht enttäuscht (1933), Der Meister (1952), and Armer Cicero (1955). Other works include the biographies H. Heine (1934) and Franz Kafka (1937), and essays Das Unzerstörbare (1968). |
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