Publishing in exile

"Authors who fled Germany and France following the rise of National Socialism often found themselves stranded abroad without publishers, and writing in a language foreign to their host countries. Though several exile presses were established in the early 1930s?Querido Verlag and Allert de Lange in Amsterdam, for example?fascism?s advance made it necessary during the war years for exile presses to flee to more distant shores, including those of the United States and Mexico. / Publishing in Exile brings together for the first time literary works published by these German-speaking exile publishers in the United States during the Third Reich.^ Displayed along with the original books, rare photos, letters, and archival material are several unique manuscripts that characterize the writing done during this dark time, such as Thomas Mann's, Joseph der Ernährer [Joseph the Provider] and Franz Werfel?s, Die wahre Geschichte vom wiederhergestellten Kreuz [The True Story of the Restored Cross], as well as materials from collections in Germany and across the United States. Many of the titles published by the exile presses in the U.S. were written by authors banned by the Nazis: Jewish writers,