Tikvah
Editors’ Pick

August 28, 2015

Remembering One of the Great Jewish Interpreters of German Literature, and His Family

A niece’s memoir of her parents and her uncle, the scholar Erich Heller.

After World War II, Erich Heller became a leading scholar and critic of German literature, teaching the subject at Cambridge in England and later at Northwestern in Evanston, IL. Born in Sudetenland, he was able to escape to England shortly after the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. His niece, Caroline Heller, has made Erich and the rest of her family the subject of a novelistic memoir, about which Adam Kirsch writes:

SaveGift