Kurt Tucholsky - Poor, Harold Lloyd
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Harold L. Poor's biography of the iconic German Jewish author, journalist, satirist, playwright, and poet is the most important and thorough work on Kurt Tucholsky in the English-speaking world; a labor of love by the Rutgers history professor that is still unmatched. For this book, Poor has not only spent years of research in American Universities, he also visited Tucholsky's widow Mary Gerold in her home in Germany, his family in tow, and unearthed material, letters, and pictures previously unknown. This book is an entertaining and well-written gem that has finally been rediscovered. "Harold…mehr

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Harold L. Poor's biography of the iconic German Jewish author, journalist, satirist, playwright, and poet is the most important and thorough work on Kurt Tucholsky in the English-speaking world; a labor of love by the Rutgers history professor that is still unmatched. For this book, Poor has not only spent years of research in American Universities, he also visited Tucholsky's widow Mary Gerold in her home in Germany, his family in tow, and unearthed material, letters, and pictures previously unknown. This book is an entertaining and well-written gem that has finally been rediscovered. "Harold L. Poor's study is one of the best of a large and growing crop." Gordon Craig, The New York Times "The book does offer an introduction to a very important period and a witty, cosmopolitan, quite tragic man." Kirkus Reviews "This biography, the first substantial treatment of its subject in English, does an excellent job of analyzing Tucholsky's Hassliebe for Germany." Robert E. Neil, The American Historical Review "Poor has placed the brilliant satirist in the context of the history of his country. ... a meticulously researched, copiously annotated study." Harry Zohn, The Germanic Review "An (...) academic exercise of the sort Tucholsky himself prophetically anticipated in his Plea Against Immortality." Ernst Pawel, Commentary Magazine "Poor has provided a new focus of the Weimar Republic and its fate." Carl E. Schorske, The New York Review of Books This one was well worth doing and it is well worth reading." Richard Hanser, The German-American Review "A readable orientation to the history of the Weimar era." Wayne Wonderley, Richmond News Leader "An interesting picture of the Germany of the 1920s as it headed inexorably toward Hitlerism and the devastation of World War II." Jerry Few, the Arizona Daily Star
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Autorenporträt
Harold Poor was born in 1935 in Missouri, grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and attended Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957. As an undergraduate, Harold majored in German history and decided to follow an academic career by pursuing an M.A.(1958) and a Ph.D. (1965) in German and European history at Columbia University. While still a graduate student, Harold taught as an Instructor in History at both City College (1960) and Temple University (1961-1963). He then taught at Smith College from 1963 to 1966, where he became an Assistant Professor of German history. In 1966, he came to the Rutgers College History Department where he continued to teach and administer until his premature retirement in 1991 on disability because of AIDS. He died on January 24, 1992. Harold Poor was one of the most gifted and charismatic teachers in the History Department. His courses ranged widely over German and European history, focusing upon cultural, political and intellectual aspects of 19th and 20th century history. He pioneered in the teaching of gay history with his course on "History and the Homosexual" in the fall of 1984. In addition to his teaching, Harold published in 1968 his dissertation on Kurt Tucholsky and the Ordeal of Germany, 1914-1935. He also was the co-author of a music drama Tickles by Tucholsky, which was first produced at Brandeis University and then off Broadway at Theater Four in 1976. As an ardent bicyclist, he also published Bicycling in New Jersey: Thirty Tours in 1978. From 1981 through 1983, he served as the national Chairperson for the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, an affiliate of the American Historical Association. For the History Department, Harold served as Undergraduate Chairperson from 1989 to 1991 and was the Director of the Rutgers Junior Year Abroad Program in Germany from 1985 to 1987.