View source for 1981 March 30 - April 2: The World of Yesterday's Humanist Today. Stefan Zweig's Time, Life and Works in the Modern World

A Symposium at the State University College at Fredonia, New York. Co-Coordinators Marion Sonnenfeld and Yvonne Wilensky. Banquet: Robert Rie, Professor Emeritus, Master of Ceremonies. Welcome to Fredonia: J. Carter Rowland, Vice President for Academic Affairs. Welcome on behalf of the Republic of Austria: Symposium Co-Sponsor, Fritz Cocron, Director, Austrian Institute, New York.

'''Keynote'''
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Georg Iggers [State University of New York, Buffalo, NY]. Some Introductory Observations on Stefan Zweig’s ‘World of Yesterday’ 
Wilma Iggers [Canisius College, Buffalo, NY]. ‘The World of Yesterday’ in the View of an Intellectual Historian
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'''Zweig the European''' [Andrée Pénot, Coordinator]
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Helene M. Kastinger Riley [Yale University, New Haven, CT]. The Quest for Reason - Stefan Zweig’s and Romain Rolland’s Struggle for Pan-European Unity
Brenda Keiser [University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA]. Stefan Zweig, the Man of the Hour and the Consistent Humanist
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'''Zweig and Judaism''' [George Browder, Coordinator]
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Leo Spitzer [Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH]. Into the Bourgeoisie - A Study of the Family of Stefan Zweig and Jewish Social Mobility during the Time of the Emancipation
Leon Botstein [Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY]. Stefan Zweig, Jewish Assimilation and the Popularization of European Culture
Klara Carmely [California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA]. The Ideal of Eternal Homelessness - Stefan Zweig and Judaism
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'''Zweig and the Social Sciences''' [Julius Paul, Coordinator]
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Stephen Howard Garrin [University of Texas, Austin, TX]. History as Literature - Stefan Zweig’s ‘Sternstunden der Menschheit’
Lionel B. Steiman [University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada]. The Worm in the Rose - Historical Destiny and Individual Action in Stefan Zweig’s Vision of History
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''''Zweig the Humanizer in Literature''' [Marion Sonnenfeld, Coordinator]
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David Turner [University of Hull, Hull, England]. The Humane Ideal in Stefan Zweig’s Novellen - Some Complications and Limitations
Ann Clark Fehn and Ulrike S. Rettig [Harvard University, Cambridge, MA]. Narrative Perspective and Psychological Analysis in Stefan Zweig’s ‘Angst’ 
Gerd Schneider [University of Syracuse, Syracuse, NY]. Portrayal of the Elderly in Three Novellas of Stefan Zweig
Peter J. Macris [State University of New York, Oneonta, NY]. Zweig as Dramatist
Donald Daviau [University of California, Riverside, CA]. The Spirit of Humanism as Reflected in Stefan Zweig’s Dramatic Works
Joseph P. Strelka [State University of New York, Albany, NY]. Zweig’s Balzac Novel
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'''Zweig in Concert''' [Harry John Brown, Coordinator]

'''Zweig and Strauss''' A. Cutler-Silliman, Coordinator]
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Steven Cerf [Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME]. Stefan Zweig as Librettist
Bryan Gilliam [Harvard University, Cambridge, MA]. The Influence of Stefan Zweig on the Late Operatic Work of Richard Strauss
Michael P. Steinberg [Chicago, Illinois]. Tragic Sensibility and Comic Opera: Zweig’s ‘Schweigsame Frau’
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'''Zweig the Correspondent''' [John Saulitis, Coordinator]
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Jeffrey B. Berlin [Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science>Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA]. Stefan Zweig and His American Publisher
Johanna Roden [California State University, Long Beach, CA]. Stefan Zweig and Emil Ludwig
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'''RESEARCH'''
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Randolph J. Klawiter [University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN]. The State of Stefan Zweig Research. An Update 
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'''Zweig the Emigrant''' [Robert Rie, Coordinator]
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Editha S. Neumann [University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS]. Zweig, the Wanderer between Two Worlds
Rosi Cohen [University of California, Los Angeles, CA]. Emigration, a Contributing Factor to Zweig’s Suicide
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'''Zweig in Brazil''' [Osvaldo Chinchon, Coordinator]
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Sonja Karsen [Skidmore College, Sioux Falls, SD]. Brazil as Seen by Stefan Zweig
Erdmute Wenzel White [Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN]. Rio - The Exile of a Literary Establishment
Frances Hernandez [University of Texas, El Paso, TX]. The Zweigs and Gabriela Mistral in Petropolis
Jean-Jacques Lafaye [Paris, France]. Stefan Zweig and Georges Bernanos in Brazil - An Encounter
Alberto Dines [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]. Death in Paradise
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'''Stefan Zweig's ‘Thersites’''' [Translated by Marion Sonnenfeld. Reader’s Theatre Version by Jack Cogdill]

'''Zweig in Film'''
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Mimi Grossberg [New York City, NY]. Zweig in Film and Television
Screening of ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman’
Panel discussion of the film [Henry Salerno, Coordinator]. Panelists: Carol Brownson, Robert Deming, David Meerse, James Shokoff
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'''Closing Address'''
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Harry Zohn [Brandeis University, Waltham, MA]. The Burning Secret of Stephen Branch or A Cautionary Tale about a Physician Who Could Not Heal Himself
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