| | Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Born in 1892 in the Galician oil town of Drohobycz, a dissatisfied art teacher in the local gymnasium, Schulz was recognized by the cream of Polish inter-war modernist writers upon the appearance in 1933 of his first volume, Cinnamon Shops. |
 | | Figures as illustrious as Julian Tuwim, Stanislaw Witkiewicz and Witold Gombrowicz welcomed Schulz into a rarified group of experimenters and critics who were intoxicated by avant-gardist stances and high-flown esthetic philosophies. |
 | | Schulz was an odd companion in such circles — a shy, congenitally worried and physically frail man, he seems to have been pampered by his more famous colleagues, the way the keepers of a child prodigy protect their charge. |
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