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High Treason and Low Comedy, Terrence O'Keeffe's comprehensive study of Egon Erwin Kisch, is an important contribution to our understanding of the complexity of interwar Austrian Jewish culture. O'Keeffe is a masterful translator who not only brings two of Kisch's plays to the English-speaking reader, but even more importantly, sheds light on this emblematic and fascinating writer.--Professor Leslie Morris, University of Minnesota Egon Erwin Kisch is one of the most exciting and innovative authors of the first half of the 20th century. He was a vital part of the vibrant Prague literary scene that included his contemporaries Franz Kafka, Carl Capek, and Jaroslav Hasek. But until now Kisch's literary texts and the story of the adventurous life that lay behind those texts have been little-known in the English-speaking world. Terrence O'Keeffe's entertaining and informative book High Treason and Low Comedy offers for the first time English language translations of two of Kisch's most important plays and places them within the context of his extraordinary career and historical moment. O'Keeffe's book offers an entertaining and informative journey into Kisch's early-20th-century world and is a welcome addition to the literature on this important journalist, author, and adventurer.--Professor Todd Herzog, University of Cincinnati

Egon Erwin Kisch is one of the most exciting and innovative authors of the first half of the 20th century. He was a vital part of the vibrant Prague literary scene that included his contemporaries Franz Kafka, Carl Capek, and Jaroslav Hasek. But until now Kisch's literary texts and the story of the adventurous life that lay behind those texts have been little-known in the English-speaking world. Terrence O'Keeffe's entertaining and informative book High Treason and Low Comedy offers for the first time English language translations of two of Kisch's most important plays and places them within the context of his extraordinary career and historical moment. O'Keeffe's book offers an entertaining and informative journey into Kisch's early-20th-century world and is a welcome addition to the literature on this important journalist, author, and adventurer.--Professor Todd Herzog, University of Cincinnati High Treason and Low Comedy, Terrence O'Keeffe's comprehensive study of Egon Erwin Kisch, is an important contribution to our understanding of the complexity of interwar Austrian Jewish culture. O'Keeffe is a masterful translator who not only brings two of Kisch's plays to the English-speaking reader, but even more importantly, sheds light on this emblematic and fascinating writer.--Professor Leslie Morris, University of Minnesota

High Treason and Low Comedy, Terrence O'Keeffe's comprehensive study of Egon Erwin Kisch, is an important contribution to our understanding of the complexity of interwar Austrian Jewish culture. O'Keeffe is a masterful translator who not only brings two of Kisch's plays to the English-speaking reader, but even more importantly, sheds light on this emblematic and fascinating writer.--Professor Leslie Morris, University of Minnesota Egon Erwin Kisch is one of the most exciting and innovative authors of the first half of the 20th century. He was a vital part of the vibrant Prague literary scene that included his contemporaries Franz Kafka, Carl Capek, and Jaroslav Hasek. But until now Kisch's literary texts and the story of the adventurous life that lay behind those texts have been little-known in the English-speaking world. Terrence O'Keeffe's entertaining and informative book High Treason and Low Comedy offers―for the first time―English language translations of two of Kisch's most important plays and places them within the context of his extraordinary career and historical moment. O'Keeffe's book offers an entertaining and informative journey into Kisch's early-20th-century world and is a welcome addition to the literature on this important journalist, author, and adventurer.--Professor Todd Herzog, University of Cincinnati

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Terrence O’Keeffe, born in Baltimore in 1944, attended Princeton University, with a hiatus for service in the US army. He graduated in 1971 with a degree in Art History, studied anthropology at Rutgers University, and then worked as a research scientist for 35 years at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in Orangeburg, New York. Since 2011, his writing about Central and Eastern European writers, culture, and history has appeared in The Hungarian Quarterly, The Sarmatian Review, The Polish Review, The Slavic and East European Journal, the Ruthenian journal Шветлосц, the Australian journal Labour History and the Journal of Austrian Studies.

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