SOURCE: Jacobsohn, Peter. “Weimar's Dazzling Moment.” New Republic 160, no. 1 (4 January 1969): 25–26.

In the following review, Jacobsohn offers a positive assessment of Weimar Culture, calling the work “a virtuoso performance.”

Weimar [the subject of Weimar Culture] entered the American intellectual consciousness only very late—not, in fact, till well after its demise. During the 1920's, which marked the height of Weimar's cultural and intellectual achievements, Americans looked to Paris—the Mecca of the expatriates, the adopted home of Gertrude Stein, the beachhead of the avant-garde. Yet over the long haul, Berlin—which was the epitome of Weimar—was to have a greater effect by far on American intellectual life than Paris. This began to become apparent only in the 1930's, when the first refugees to flee Hitler started to arrive in America. In terms of artistic and intellectual distinction it was an unparalleled migration, for among the emigrés (to...