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Alberto Dines, author and journalist, dead at age 86

Posted on May 23, 2018

Brazilian author, journalist and noted Zweig biographer Alberto Dines has died at age 86 in São Paolo, Brazil. Former editor-in-chief for the Brazilian newspaper Jornal do Brasil, Dines was also the first President of Casa Stefan Zweig – a museum … Continue reading →

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New Video Celebrating 50 Years of the Stefan Zweig Collection at Fredonia

Posted on October 18, 2017

Watch the new video celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stefan Zweig Collection at Fredonia. The video features interviews with Associate Professor of English Birger Vanwesenbeeck, Instructor of Piano/Collaborative Piano Anne Kissel, Archivist Kim Taylor, and several Fredonia students who … Continue reading →

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Please Join Us in Celebrating “Zweig at Fredonia: 50 Years of Transformation”

Posted on September 6, 2017

As part of the 2017-2018 Convocation Series at Fredonia, “Transformations”, please join the Archives & Special Collections of Reed Library and the Department of English in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stefan Zweig Collection at Reed Library, as well as … Continue reading →

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Zweig Scholar Pardaad Chamsaz and Upcoming Events at the British Library

Posted on March 17, 2017

Pardaad Chamsaz, a twice visiting researcher to the Stefan Zweig Collection at Fredonia, is a Zweig scholar currently completing his PhD via an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships Programme between the University of Bristol and the British Library. His research examines not only … Continue reading →

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Literaturarchiv Salzburg and Reed Library Archives Combine Efforts and Zweig Collections

Posted on February 23, 2017

A recent visit to the Literaturarchiv Salzburg (LaS) by Reed Library Archivist Kim Taylor served to facilitate a new collaboration between the LaS and the Archives & Special Collections at Fredonia (A&SC) focused on the respective Stefan Zweig collections held … Continue reading →

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National Library of Israel acquires correspondence of Stefan Zweig with Hans Rosenkranz

Posted on November 14, 2016

The National Library of Israel has recently acquired twelve years of correspondence sent by Stefan Zweig to then-aspiring author Hans Rosenkranz between 1921 and 1933. Comprising 26 letters and six postcards, the materials elucidate Zweig’s role (repeated many times during his … Continue reading →

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Reblogged: A librettist and his composer: Stefan Zweig and Richard Strauss as seen through their letters (guest post by Kimberly Taylor)

Posted on September 12, 2016

In February 1935, Austrian Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), commonly regarded as the most translated German language author of his time, wrote to German composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949), “One day, your letters, your decisions, will belong to all mankind.” (Richard Strauss and … Continue reading →

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