Arnold Zweig (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Arnold Zweig (tsvihk) was born into a Jewish middle-class family in 1887. His father, Adolf Zweig, was a saddler and grocer; his mother was Bianca von Spandow. He was educated at the technical school in Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, and then at several German universities, including Breslau, Munich, Berlin, Göttingen, Rostock, and Tübingen, where he studied philosophy and languages and developed an interest in psychology, history, and the arts.
Arnold Zweig had planned to be a teacher, but during his education he began to devote considerable time to writing; his earliest short...
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