Kurt Loewenstein1902 – 1973

Last draft, 1973 · 343 pages · unpublished

Thomas Mann zur jüdischen Frage

Analyse von Werk und Leben — eine Spiegelung des deutschen Judenproblems. Five years of research, a publisher lined up for 1974, and a death three months too early. The manuscript has never been printed. It is reproduced here in full.

Section by section

The manuscript, page by page

Each row is one section of the typescript, at its real length. Two page ranges were never split into separate files — those rows point at the complete scan, which contains every page.

  1. front matter

    Inhalt — Table of contents

    German, PDF 0.5 MB · English translation, 52 KB

  2. pp. 1–6

    Vorwort — Preface

    German original in the complete scan · English translation, 118 KB

  3. pp. 7–27

    Anfänge — Beginnings

    21 pages · PDF 5.4 MB

  4. pp. 28–57

    Not issued as a separate file

    30 pages · included in the complete scan

  5. pp. 58–99

    Antisemitismus I — Antisemitism

    42 pages · PDF 5.6 MB

  6. pp. 100–142

    Antisemitismus II

    43 pages · PDF 5.3 MB

  7. pp. 143–185

    Aspekte der Judenfrage — Aspects of the Jewish question

    43 pages · PDF 5.2 MB

  8. pp. 186–220

    Randerscheinungen — Marginal phenomena

    35 pages · PDF 8.2 MB

  9. pp. 221–239

    Judentum — Jewishness

    19 pages · PDF 4.6 MB

  10. pp. 240–280

    Lösung — Resolution

    41 pages · PDF 8.3 MB

  11. pp. 281–307

    Anmerkungen I — Notes

    27 pages · PDF 5.5 MB

  12. pp. 308–343

    Anmerkungen II

    36 pages · PDF 6.9 MB

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Also held elsewhere

Other copies

The family also keeps the scans in a Google Drive folder, shared when the first version of this site went up in 2013.