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Table 1.

Selected List of Jewish Writers Who Committed Suicide in the Pre-war/War Period.

Name	Type of Writer	Year of Suicide
^*Kurt Tucholsky	Satirist, novelist, playwright	1935
^*Egon Friedell	Theatre critic, journalist	1938
^*John Höxter	Theatre critic, playwright	1938
^*Ludwig Fulda	Playwright, author, journalist	1939
Ernst Toller	Historian, playwright, novelist	1939
Walter Benjamin	Philosopher, author, essayist	1940
Walter Hasenclever	Novelist, historian	1940
Stefan Zweig	Novelist, essayist, playwright, librettist	1942
Alfred Wolfenstein	Historian, anthologist, playwright (last published in 1936)	1945
Paul Federn	Psychoanalyst, editor, author, critic (last published in 1941)	1950

^*Although these writers died in Vienna and Berlin, “crisis of exile” was expressed by their literal fear of exile, which led to their suicides.

RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2015 October; 6(4): e0040. ISSN: 2076-9172

Published online 2015 October 26. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10225