11 Facts About Harry Slochower

Harry Slochower arrived in the United States on the SS Frankfurt in October 1913, joining his parents who had arrived in February 1911.

Harry Slochower grew up in the Bronx and studied philosophy and German at the City College of New York, graduating in 1923.

Harry Slochower studied at the universities of Berlin, Munich and Heidelberg, before receiving his PhD from Columbia for a book on Richard Dehmel.

Harry Slochower was made a Guggenheim Fellow in 1929 for his study on the "infiltration of Schopenhauer's pessimism into German literature".

From 1924, Harry Slochower taught German and English, for immigrants, at various schools in New York.

In 1952, Harry Slochower invoked the Fifth Amendment, refusing to answer a Congressional committee whether he was a member of the Communist Party.

Harry Slochower was fired from his teaching post and then sued the college.

The Supreme Court ruled, in 1956, that he had been "denied due process" and Harry Slochower was reinstated and given back pay of $40,000, before being suspended again for the charge of lying before the Senate committee.

Harry Slochower's works include Three Ways of Modern Man, Thomas Mann's Joseph Story: An Interpretation and No Voice is Wholly Lost.

Harry Slochower contributed to various philosophical, literary and psychoanalytic journals.

Harry Slochower was president of the Association for Applied Psychoanalysis and, from 1964 until his death, was editor of the psychoanalysis journal American Imago.