Stefan Zweig, Billy Wilder and The Wandering Jew

 I fell in love with Bill Wilder's 'The Apartment', 1960 in early 2025. I had seen it earlier but discovered all its beauty and sadness then after watching the film multiple times.

I knew Stefan Zweig since 1960s as my father has published a couple of his novellas in Marathi translation. I have read my father's translations multiple times.

I feel their unhealed wounds of having to leave their homeland are behind their creative work. 

Zweig wrote extensively about themes of exile and the "wandering Jew" in his works, and some sources suggest that the story of the Wandering Jew may be at the heart of Wilder's film "The Apartment".

 

 Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment