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Stefan Zweig On What Jews Really Want

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Rod Dreher
Feb 17, 2026
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Stefan Zweig, from an AI documentary on his life (link here)

It’s really hard to overstate how good The World Of Yesterday, the Austrian Jewish writer Stefan Zweig’s 1942 memoir, is. It was published after Zweig killed himself, along with his wife, as they were in exile from the Nazis. Zweig was one of the most popular writers of his day (I discovered hi…

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