User talk:Ron1613

We are here at the funeral to say good by to my mother Edith Kurzweil. I was told that I should give an eulogy. I am usually not one for words; however, I will speak today. Wikipedia emphasizes her Jewish background. I will update what was posted in Wikipedia.

Edith Kurzweil Edith Kurzweil (born 1925 Vienna)(update – June 3, 1924) is an American writer, and was editor of Partisan Review. To update this, she passed away on February 6, 2016 or on the Jewish calendar, 27 Shevat 5776 at 10:25 AM. I was present when she breathed her last. Wikipedia continues: She was the daughter of assimilated Viennese Jews, during the Anschluss in March 1938. She watched from a dressmaker’s shop on Tempelgasse in November on Kristallnacht, as Nazi soldiers and ordinary Austrian citizens torched Vienna’s largest synagogue. She was separated from her parents, and fled to a children’s homes near Brussels, (Bruxelles en français) and then, to Toulouse in southern France in a boxcar. She acquired transit visas, shepherding her brother on a perilous voyage from France through Spain to Lisbon and thence on the S.S. Excalibur to New York City, and reunification with their parents. In 1995, she married William Phillips. She graduated with a Ph.D. in sociology.[3] She taught at Rutgers University. (To update Wikipedia, she was also professor at Adelphi University.) Kurzweil was born in Vienna (Wien auf Deutsch) into a well-to-do Jewish family. She was thirteen years old when, in March 1938, Hitler marched into her hometown. A year later she and her younger brother left for Belgium on a children’s transport. When the German army invaded Belgium, in May 1940, she managed to flee to southern France with the 100 children of the home d’enfants, and then, alone with her younger brother, through Spain and Portugal to meet her parents in New York. The following updates the “citation needed” which is page 7 of Walter Laqueur’d preface to my mother’s memoir “Full Circle”: Then my  father’s America had been depicted in the imposing, silver-covered tome, How They Got Rich and Famous, mine were Karl May’s Winnetou and in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind. His heroes had been John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan, mine had been Old Shatterhand and Scarlett O’Hara. After fleeing to Brussels, … my hewroes were Clark Gable, Joseph Cotton and John Wayne. And since I wasn’t as cute as Deanna Durbin or Shirley Temple,  I planned to turn herself into a famous author, another Pearl Buck.” Years later, her father became wealthy, and she became a writer and scholar—a serious rather than a glamorous one. Awards •	2003 National Humanities Medal •	1982 Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship •	1987 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Works •	Italian entrepreneurs: rearguard of progress. •	The age of structuralism: from Lévi-Strauss to FoucaultThe Freudians: a comparative perspective. •	"Feminists and Freudians" •	Full circle: a memoir •	Freud und die Freudianer (not in Wikipedia) Editor •	Writers & politics: a Partisan review reader. •	A partisan century: political writings from Partisan review. •	Nazi laws and Jewish lives: letters from Vienna. •	“Briefe aus Wien – Jüdisches Leben vor der Deportation” (not in Wikipedia)

I will try to have Wikipedia information updated.