Wolf Schwabacher

Wolf Schwabacher

Wolf Schwabacher was a prominent Jewish entertainment lawyer, a partner in the New York firm of Hays, Wolf, Schwabacher, Sklar & Epstein, whose clients included the Marx Brothers, Lillian Hellman, and Erskine Caldwell.

His wife, Ethel Schwabacher (they married in 1934), was a protegee of Arshile Gorky, his first biographer, and herself a well-known abstract impressionist painter.

Wolf and Ethel Schwabacher shared a house with the psychoanalyst Muriel Gardiner and her husband, the Austrian socialist Joseph Buttinger, for more than ten years. After Gardiner and Buttinger, fleeing from Europe after the start of World War II, moved into their house at Brookdale Farm in central New Jersey in 1940, the house was divided in two, the Gardiner-Buttingers living in one part of the house and the Schwabachers in the other.

The Schwabacher-Gardiner connection came to public attention during the libel suit which Hellman brought against Mary McCarthy.

When Hellman published her memoir, "Pentimento" (1973), Gardiner spotted the close similarlity between her own anti-Fascist activities in Vienna in the 1930s and the story Hellman told about a pseudonymous friend called Julia. Gardiner wrote to Hellman asking for an explanation, but Hellman never replied.

Hellman, who never met Gardiner, claimed that her Julia was somebody else. Many people believe otherwise, citing the vanishingly low probability that there were two millionaire American medical students in Vienna in the late 1930s who married the head of a resistance movement and were active in that movement.It is believed that Hellman learned Gardiner's story from Schwabacher who had visited Gardiner in Vienna in the 1930s and whose garrulous nature made it very likely that he had related the story of Gardiner's activities to his contacts.

References

*McDowell, Edwin; "Publishing: New Memoir Stirs 'Julia' Controversy", "New York Times", April 29, 1983


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