Robert Blumenfeld

Moriz Scheyer (1886-1949) was arts editor of one of Vienna’s main newspapers from 1924 until his expulsion in 1938. A personal friend of Stefan Zweig, in his own lifetime he published three books of travel writing and three volumes of literary-historical essays. He died in France in 1949.

P. N. Singer is Scheyer’s step-grandson, a writer, and a translator.