Adolf Josef Storfer (11 January 1888, Botoşani,

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– 2 December 1944,

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, Australia) was an educated Austrian lawyer turned journalist and publisher. He belonged to

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts ...

's group of friends in

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and fled to Australia via

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at the last minute in 1938.

References

* Yuan Zhiying: ''A. J. Storfer und die „Gelbe Post“.'' In: ''Literaturstraße. Chinesisch-deutsches Jahrbuch für Sprache, Literatur und Kultur'' 9 (2008), , pp. 225–238. * Christian Pape: ''Verdrängt, Verkannt, Vergessen? Ein Beitrag zu Leben und Werken von Adolf Josef Storfer.'' In: ''Chilufim. Zeitschrift für jüdische Kulturgeschichte'' 12 (2012), , pp. 5–26.

External links

Yellow Post: An East Asian Semi-monthly
a digitized periodical published by Storfer while he was living in exile, at the

Leo Baeck Institute, New York The Leo Baeck Institute New York (LBI) is a research institute in New York City dedicated to the study of German-Jewish history and culture, founded in 1955. It is one of three independent research centers founded by a group of German-speaking J ...

1888 births 1944 deaths People from Botoșani Romanian Jews Jewish emigrants from Austria to Australia after the Anschluss Analysands of Sigmund Freud {{Romania-bio-stub