Peter Gay (1923–2015) - Volume 49 Issue 1
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PETER GAY (1923–2015)
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Dcribed by Gay as a “self-ma man, ” Morz Fröhlich was born 1894 the predomantly Polish village of Podjanze Upper Silia and received only an eighth-gra tn before embarkg on a bs reer.
In the ‘60s, Yale historian Gay won a Natnal Book Award for a history of the Enlightenment; for the third stallment of the Pengu Liv he picts the lightng reer of s greatt mil md. * peter gay mozart *
Footnote 1 Dpe his middle-class standg, Gay's father was a lifelong supporter of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and a pronounced secularist, views he passed onto his son. ”Footnote 3 By mid-1937, Gay's parents had formed a plan to move the fay om Berl to Florida, where an uncle lived wh his Amerin wife, but the events of 1938 ratcheted up the prsure even further.
This entailed not only buyg new tickets but also alterg the date and ship name on the fay's certifite of passage, a fery Gay's father acplished wh precisn and patience.
Footnote 5 In the meantime, Gay explored the entertaments of Havana and worked on his English, polishg his prose at the Havana Bs Amy (to which he received a scholarship) and vourg Amerin perdils like Time, Collier's, and the Saturday Eveng Post. Jt weeks after arrivg Colorado, Gay's fay applied for Amerin cizenship, and, followg the example of a who had immigrated several years earlier, they Amerinized their first, middle, and last nam.