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Ludwig Lewisohn

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Lyricist 1882–1955

Ludwig Lewisohn (May 30, 1882 – December 31, 1955) was a novelist, literary critic, the drama critic for The Nation and then its associate editor. He was the editor of the New Palestine, an American Zionist journal. He taught at the University of Wisconsin and at Ohio State University as well as serving as professor of German and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University. Lewisohn produced some 40 full-length fiction and non-fiction books, nearly as many translations, wrote numerous magazine and journal articles and edited countless other written works.

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The Eternal Road

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  • Ludwig Lewisohn’s translation appeared the following year, in January 1936, as a more or less literal rendering of the Viennese text. The full title is given as The Eternal Road: A Drama in Four Parts (New York: Viking Press). Preceding the translator’s note, there is a short note informing readers of the New York production: “The English…ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
  • Der Weg der Verheissung (biblical drama, Franz Werfel), 1934–35 [incomplete]; revised by Weill and Ludwig Lewisohn as The Eternal Road, New York, Manhattan Opera House, 7 January 1937.ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
  • 99 . Franz Werfel, The Eternal Road: A Drama in Four Parts, trans. Ludwig Lewisohn (New York: Viking Press, 1936), xi.ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
  • work has diminished and he therefore furnishes less provocation. In America, Ludwig Lewisohn and George Jean Nathan were up in arms the taste for histheatre-pdfs/A Treasury of the Theatre, v. 3.txt
  • Introduction by Ludwig Lewisohn A play in 3 acts In the introduction to this tragedy of negro life Ludwig Lewisohn says: | “Every triangle play isa‘Medea’. There | are subjects that are classical because they are native to the chatacter and circumstances of mankind. Such is the subject of ‘Goat Alley.” And| George Jean Nathan: “ ‘Goat All…theatre-pdfs/sim_theatre-arts_1923-01_7_1.txt

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