Because the remarkable subject of this very impressive collection of moving and thoughtprovoking essays is still, ironically, not well known outside a relatively small – but growing – group of devotees, the editors of JES have kindly allowed me to turn what began as a review into a review essay. When World War II broke out, H[ans] G[ünther] Adler (1910–88), the scion of a German-speaking, non-practising Jewish family and a Czech national with a good command of the language, was living in Prague and working in his father’s book-binding shop. A budding writer and intellectual, he had studied musicology, literature and philosophy from 1930 to 1935 at the German University of Prague and concluded his studies there in 1935 by submitting a doctorate on the German elegiac poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) and Music. After graduating, he moved in various intellectual and artistic circles in Prague. But from August to December 1941 he was incarcerated in a work camp for Jews and forced to build railways. In the wake of the Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942, when 15 Nazi officials – chaired by Himmler’s evil acolyte, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich (1904–42; assassinated) – had approved a top secret plan for the systematic, industrialized elimination of European Jewry, Adler, his new wife Gertrud Klepetar, a medical doctor, and her parents were deported to the socalled ‘Paradise Ghetto’ of Theresienstadt in early February 1942. They spent about 30 months there, apart from Gertrud’s father, who died in April 1943. On 12 October 1944 the three survivors were deported to KZ Auschwitz, where Gertrude and her mother were immediately sent to the gas chamber and from where, on 28 October, Adler was moved to two of KZ Buchenwald’s satellite camps, in one of which he managed to survive until

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HG Adler：卓越的现代主义流离失所者

讽刺的是，由于这本令人印象深刻且发人深省的论文集的非凡主题在相对较小但不断增长的奉献者群体之外仍然不为人所知，JES 的编辑好心地允许我将开始的评论变成一篇评论文章。第二次世界大战爆发时，H[ans] G[ünther] Adler (1910–88) 是一个讲德语、不修炼的犹太家庭的后裔，也是一位精通德语的捷克国民，他住在布拉格，在他父亲的装订店工作。作为一名崭露头角的作家和知识分子，他于 1930 年至 1935 年在布拉格德国大学学习音乐学、文学和哲学，并于 1935 年通过提交德国挽歌诗人弗里德里希·戈特利布·克洛普斯托克 (Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock，1724–1803) 和音乐的博士学位而在那里完成学业。 . 毕业后，他在布拉格的各个知识分子和艺术圈子里活动。但从 1941 年 8 月到 12 月，他被关押在犹太人工作营中，被迫修建铁路。在 1942 年 1 月 20 日的万湖会议之后，当时 15 名纳粹官员——由希姆莱的邪恶助手、党卫军将军莱因哈德·海德里希（1904-42；被暗杀）担任主席——批准了一项绝密计划，用于系统地、工业化地消灭欧洲1942 年 2 月上旬，犹太人、阿德勒、他的新婚妻子格特鲁德·克莱佩塔 (Gertrud Klepetar) 和她的父母被驱逐到特莱西恩施塔特所谓的“天堂隔都”。除了格特鲁德的父亲于 1943 年 4 月去世，他们在那里待了大约 30 个月. 1944 年 10 月 12 日，三名幸存者被驱逐到 KZ 奥斯威辛集中营，格特鲁德和她的母亲立即被送到毒气室，从那里，