Jack Kahane
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Son of Jack Kahane and Marcelle Kahane. He took his mother's maiden name, Girodias, during the Occupation.
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Maurice Girodias
Kahane's son, who survived the Occupation under his mother's name, revived Obelisk, and founded the Olympia Press — Lolita, Beckett, Naked Lunch.
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- 1919–1990
- 1919
- 1990
- French
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Operated · 1945
Obelisk Press
Girodias briefly revived his father's press after the war, reissuing Henry Miller and other English-language titles to American soldiers passing through Paris. He founded the Olympia Press in 1953.
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Child of
Jack Kahane
Son of Jack Kahane and Marcelle Kahane. He took his mother's maiden name, Girodias, during the Occupation.
Operated · 1945
Obelisk Press
Girodias briefly revived his father's press after the war, reissuing Henry Miller and other English-language titles to American soldiers passing through Paris. He founded the Olympia Press in 1953.