AHC interview with Edith Eisler

Abstract

August 2, 2006Edith Eisler was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925. High culture played a very important part in her family’s life: the family attended concerts, the opera, theater performances, and lectures of Karl Kraus. Most of her parents’ friends belonged to the intellectual circle. The majority of them had a Jewish background but did not live a religious life. After the ‘Anschluss’ the family emigrated to Czechoslovakia and a year later to England. During her stay in England Edith Eisler played the piano. She continued to be a pianist after her family’s immigration to the United States in 1945.Austrian Heritage Collectio