Hanna Ballin Lewis is the editor and English language translator of two of German writer

Fanny Lewald Fanny Lewald (21 March 1811 – 5 August 1889) was a German novelist and essayist and a women's rights activist. Life and career Fanny Lewald was born at Königsberg in East Prussia in 1811 to a bourgeois, Jewish family. She was taken out of sc ...

's most popular books, ''Erinnerungen aus dem Jahre 1848,'' published as "Recollections of 1848", and an abridged version of Lewald's autobiography ''Meine Lebensgeschichte,'' titled ''The Education of Fanny Lewald: An Autobiography".'' She has published extensively on Lewald, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and many other modern German and Austrian writers. Hanna was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1931. In October 1938, two weeks before the

Kristallnacht () or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (german: Novemberpogrome, ), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's (SA) paramilitary and (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation fro ...

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, she immigrated with her parents to Philadelphia, USA, to flee Nazi persecution of Jews. Hanna is a retired Professor of German at Sam Houston State University. She earned her undergraduate, Master's and PhD degrees from

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a private research university in Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranked among the top universities ...

in Houston, Texas, USA, where she presently resides, with her husband of more than 60 years, Dr. Bernard M. Lewis.

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German–English translators Sam Houston State University faculty German emigrants to the United States Living people 1931 births Rice University alumni Linguists from the United States {{US-linguist-stub