Twilight

Elsa Bernstein (1866-1949), though of Jewish descent, was a Christian and a member of Germany's educated elite. During the Holocaust, she survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp through her classification as a prominent person--a status conferred on her through the intercession of Richard Wagner's daughter-in-law, a friend of Hitler. Susanne Kord has published on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women playwrights in Germany. She has published poetry in several anthologies and journals, and translated German dramas into English.

"The translation is accurate, idiomatic, dramatic. A most impressive feat." --Steven R. Cerf, Bowdoin College "This introduction to Elsa Bernstein is excellent. . . . The account given of the reception history of the play is particularly fascinating and thoroughly researched; reception history is a crucial element in understanding this once famous, now far less widely known Jewish woman writer." --Sarah Colvin, University of Edinburgh "Kord's introduction and the extensive critical apparatus, including notes and bibliography, are comprehensive and relevant to the interests of both the curious casual reader and the scholar who intends to make serious study of Bernstein's life and work." --Midwest MLA Journal