Manes sperber biography of mahatma

Austrian writer

Manès Sperber (12 December 1905 – 5 February 1984) was an Austrian-Frenchnovelist, essayist and psychologist.

He also wrote under the pseudonyms Jan Heger and N.A. Menlos.

Early life

Sperber was born on 12 December 1905 in Zabłotów near Kolomea, in the Austrian Galicia (today Zabolotiv, Ukraine). Sperber grew up in the shtetl of Zabłotów in a Hasidic family.

Manes sperber biography of mahatma

He was the son of David Mechel Sperber^[1] and the older brother of Milo Sperber born 1911, who was to become an actor in Britain.

In the summer of 1916 the family fled from war to Vienna, where Sperber who, having lost faith, at 13 had refused to do his bar mitzvah, joined the Jewish Hashomer Hatzair youth movement.

There he met Alfred Adler, the founder of individual psychology, and became a student and co-worker. Adler broke with him in 1932 because of differences in opinion about the connection of individual psychology and Marxism.

In 1927 Sperber had moved to Berli