Susan Taubes

Susan Taubes (born Judit Zsuzanna Feldmann; 1928 – 6 November 1969) was a Hungarian-American writer and intellectual.

Taubes was born in Budapest, Hungary, into a Jewish family. Her grandfather Mózes Feldmann (1860–1927) was the head of the Conservative or "Status Quo" branch of the divided Hungarian rabbinate in Pest, and her father Sándor Feldmann (1889/90–1972) was a psychoanalyst of Sándor Ferenczi's school, though the two colleagues had a falling out in 1923.

Taubes suffered during her life from the misogyny of the literary world. The critic Hugh Kenner, reviewing her book ''Divorcing'' in the New York Times on November 2, 1969, dismissed her as one of the "lady novelists" and “a quick-change artist with the clothes of other writers.” Since her death, by drowning four days later, there has been a reappraisal of her work. In 2003, the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, in Berlin, established a Taubes archive, describing her life as a “story in which Jewish exile meets female intellectualism.” An intellectual biography of Taubes by Christina Pareigis was published in 2020, and New York Review Books reissued ''Divorcing'' the same year, to appreciative reviews. In 2023, NYRB published Taubes’s novella “Lament for Julia” for the first time, along with nine short stories. Provided by Wikipedia