In Exile in Istanbul: Erich Auerbach writing Mimesis

Eric Auerbach has written his famous book 'Mimesis' in Exile, in Istanbul.
He was a talented jewish German philologist, who probably couldn t be tolerated in a German petite bourgeoisie millieu at the time of the Nazi Regime in Marburg in 1935.

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'Erich Auerbach (November 9, 1892 in Berlin - October 13, 1957 in Wallingford, Connecticut) was a German philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature. His best-known work is Mimesis, a history of representation in Western literature from ancient to modern times.
Auerbach, who was Jewish, was trained in the German philological tradition and would eventually become, along with Leo Spitzer, one of its best-known scholars. After participating as combatant in World War I, he earned a doctorate in 1921 and in 1929 became a member of the philology faculty at the University of Marburg, publishing a well-received study entitled Dante: Poet of the Secular World. With the rise of National Socialism, however, Auerbach was forced to vacate his position in 1935. Exiled from Germany, he took up residence in Istanbul, Turkey, where he wrote Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, generally considered his masterwork.'

Erich Auerbach (1892 - 1957) süper bir kariyerden sonra Marburg Üniversitesi nden 1935 yılında Naziler tarafından atılıyor. İlk önce Istanbul a kaçıyor, daha sonra Amerika ya göç ediyor. Tabii kendisi tek bir örnek değil, onun zamanında yaşamış ve üniversiteden atılmış birçok yahudi entellektüel var.