You can watch a recording of this and other CGES webinars by clicking the button above. Born Netty Reiling in Mainz in 1900 into a liberal Jewish family, Seghers studied history, art history, and ...

Setareh Notaj is the translator of the book first published in 1944. Seghers is famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. “Transit” is an existential, political, literary ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Anna Seghers was a Communist who wrote this novel in exile in France in 1938. Published in the ...

Anna Seghers: a distinctive figure; a biography marked by the dramas of the 20th century; novels that brought her international fame. The writer, who was committed to her work throughout her life, was ...

Anna Seghers, trans from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo. NYRB Classics, $17.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-68137-535-9 German writer Seghers (1900–1983) was among the first writers to address the rise and ...

THE SEVENTH CROSS—Anna Seghers—Little, Brown ($2.50). Author Seghers’ book is a new kind of novel about the Gestapo and its victims. Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male and Ethel Vance’s Escape were ...

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Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, literature is still just emerging from the former East Germany. The latest is Crossing: A Love Story, a gripping novel by a Jewish woman who was exiled ...

Anna Seghers, trans. from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo. New York Review Books, $16.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-68137-212-9 Originally published in 1942 and available now in its first ...

This book (translated from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo) is not an easy, light-hearted read. Far from it. It describes in harrowing detail the experiences of George Heisler, who is one of seven ...