Lion Feuchtwanger, noted German Jewish author who fled the Nazis, today learned here that he had been awarded this year’s East German National Prize for his work in art and literature. The award was ...

THE PRETENDER—Lion Feuchtwanger—Viking ($2.50). One way of seeing the present is to look at its reflection in the past. This is Lion Feuchtwanger’s method. The Pretender, his third novel of the Roman ...

JOSEPHUS AND THE EMPEROR-Lion Feuchtwanger-Viking ($2.75). In the guise of a series of historical novels, Novelist Lion Feuchtwanger has for years been discussing one of the touchiest of age-old ...

Hitlerism has brought not only hardship for the Jews of Germany but has also accomplished some good in that it has strengthened the consolidation of German Jewry. This statement was made by Lion ...

The power of some classic realist novels, like Émile Zola’s “Germinal” and John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath,” lies in the way they wholly capture their era. Others endure because they continue to ...

A former Jewish neighbor of Adolf Hitler in Munich has co-authored a book describing his childhood brushes with the dictator. Edgar Feuchtwanger, 88, has joined forces with French journalist Bertil ...

Christiane Amanpour’s interview with Edgar Feuchtwanger airs at 2pm ET on CNN International. “I knew only too well, even when I was 8 years old – I knew it was a very bad business for us.” Edgar ...