Acknowledgements
I would have been unable to complete this book without a great deal of help from various quarters. Above all, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Michael Brenner for his many years of support. My stay as a visiting scholar at the University of California in Berkeley, funded by the DAAD, was of crucial importance to this project. I am enormously grateful to Martin Jay for our many engaging discussions about Friedrich Pollock and, far from least, for his granting me access to his private collection. I was also able to spend a significant amount of time at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach, allowing me to consult the papers of numerous relevant individuals and devote a significant amount of time to the manuscript. I particularly thank Caroline Jessen for her support in this context.
Throughout the years I have spent working on this book, Mathias Jehn, Oliver Kleppel and Stephen Roeper of the Archivzentrum at the University Library in Frankfurt/Main have met my every need. Furio Cerutti, Carlo Campani and Maria Enrica Vadalà helped me with the still relatively unknown corpus of Pollock’s papers now held by the University Library in Florence. I am also indebted to Carol A. Leadenham of the Hoover Institution in Stanford; Robert Bierschneider of the Munich State Archive; Jochen Rees of the Baden-Württemberg State Archive; Hans-Peter Widmann of the State Archive in Freiburg (Breisgau); Claudius Stein of the University Archive in Munich; Melissa McMullen of the special collections and archives section at SUNY Albany; and the colleagues of the New York City Municipal Archives, the Leo Baeck Institute in New York and the Asociación de Genealogía Judía de Argentina. Christine Broit, Liliana Ruth Feierstein and Carlos Abraham Weil assisted me in tracing the Argentinian Pollocks.
I thank John Abromeit, Nicola Emery, Jan Gerber, Sander Gilman, Jürgen Habermas, Dirk Heißerer, Hans Dieter Huber, Doris Maja Krüger, Johannes Platz, Gregor-Sönke Schneider, Bernd Serger, Andrea Sinn and Jörg Später for a variety of helpful pointers. Alex Gruber, Hartmut Lenhard, Janina Lenhard, Niklaas Machunsky and Elisabeth Uebelmann were kind enough to read parts of the manuscript at different stages, and I am enormously grateful for their valuable comments.