Emmanuel,
Was your father a doctor in Jerusalem?
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On Dec 23, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Emmanuel Landau <manny.landau_at_icloud.com> =
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> My Parents
> Part 1
> My mother was Ida (born on 11 of March 1899). Her mother was Rosa =
Greif, a great beauty (if only you could see her photo!). Sadly, she =
died when Ida was nine years old. During WWI the family moved to Vienna =
where Ida and her older sister Paula went to a boarding school and their =
father, Joseph Ohrenstein, specialized in gynecology. Ida studied at the =
university of Vienna, and got a doctorate in Philosophy and German =
literature. She later was the General Secretaerin of the Von Szolnay =
Verlag, the most successful publishing firm in Vienna before WWII. It =
published German language authors like Franz Werfel (40 days of Musa =
Dagh*), Heinrich Mann (Dr. Unrath, the source for the movie The Blue =
Angel with Marlene Dietrich), and Felix Salten - Ida did not like him - =
(Bambi, A Life in the Woods), as well as the translations of many =
English language authors such as John Galsworthy (The Forsyth Saga), HG =
Wells, and Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth). Ida's job was to negotiate =
contracts with the authors. Some anecdotes: once, under time pressure, =
she went into a hotel room with Franz Werfel, and he dictated to her the =
last chapters of a book. Pearl S. Buck managed to find a US sponsor for =
Ida's secretary, Annie Poltzer, and her husband, so that they could =
leave for America in 1938, and thus be saved from certain death. Ida =
married my father in 1936, and joined him in Czernowitz.
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> My father was Jacob Landau the eye doctor. More about him in another =
segment. When I was growing up he was serous, hard working and rarely =
cracked a joke. Ida on the other hand was lively with a wonderful sense =
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> I will end this segment with a wonderful quotation from Goethe:
> Vom Vater hab ich die Statur/ Des Lebens ernstes Fuehren/
> Von Muetterchen die Frohnatur/ Und Lust zu fabulieren/
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> =46rom father I have the stature/ To lead an earnest life withal/
> =46rom mother the happy nature/ The joy of telling tales tall/
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> * Only The Forsyth Saga and The Good Earth were published by Von =
Szolnay
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> Manny Landau
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