Eric Warburg - A Transatlantic Life

The history of the transatlantic partnership has, overnight, become highly topical; in fact, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it has been invoked in Europe as a key reassurance.

In her life of Eric Warburg, Jeanette Erazo Heufelder tells the story of the nephew of the art historian Aby Warburg, whose world-famous library Eric saved from the Nazis. He was a Jew, a banker, a helper of escapees, an intelligence officer in the US Army, a transatlantic bridge builder, and a Cold Warrior, and with the help of the cooperation channels he set up, West German and US social groups were aligned with the West amidst the turmoil of post-war Europe.

His life, and that of Aby Warburg’s library, tells the story of Europe's twentieth century, the legacy of which continues to inform and inspire the transatlantic partnership today.

About the author

Jeanette Erazo Heufelder is a German ethnologist. She has become known as an author and documentary filmmaker of biographical and literary pieces. Peter Lewis has had careers in university teaching and publishing and now works as a freelance translator and author.

Product details

• Authors: Jeanette Erazo Heufelder, Jeanette Erazo Heufelder, Jeanette Erazo Heufelder, Peter Lewis (translator) Jeanette Erazo Heufelder
• Assisted by: Peter Lewis (Translation), Peter Lewis (Translation)
• Publisher: Haus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2025
• EAN: 9781914979279
• ISBN: 978-1-914979-27-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Germany, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, The Cold War, Relating to Jewish people and groups, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), c 1945 to c 1990 (the Cold War period), Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War