Packing up the Past: Vicki Baum’s Quest for Heimat
The best-selling Austrian novelist Vicki Baum took ship alone for America in 1932 but emigration soon became exile for the Jewish author. The feeling of ‘Heimatlosigkeit’, or rootlessness, which oppressed Baum at that time was emotional and spiritual rather than physical. Child of a Jewish immigran...
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University of Silesia Press
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Postscriptum Polonistyczne |
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| Online Access: | https://www.journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/10440 |