The hardheaded banker flirted with fanciful schemes for worl... (1944)
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
Alice sometimes seemed dazed, shell-shocked, by the expulsion from Eden. On two trips to New York, Siegmund perceived the pathos of Alice’s abstractions: “Aunt Alice seems to be quite well,” he told Fritz, “but one has not the impression that she has any feeling for what is going on in the world; she lives, so to speak, mechanically in the present but in reality in the past.”18 Another time, he wrote, “Aunt Alice is remarkably self-controlled, but so much so that I find it sometimes rather unheimlich [eerie].”19 In 1944, Max and Alice, age seventy-seven and seventy-one, scored 100 percent on their citizenship exams and became naturalized American citizens. — Exile loosened family bonds and dissolved the old Hamburg culture.
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