 For Susman, the return to Zurich was more than a homecoming to the city of the formative years of her late childhood and adolescence; it was a return to a place that was becoming a temporary safe haven for Europe’s refuges, especially its German speaking emigrant intelligentsia. Here, Susman found a new intellectual home in the religious socialist circle of Leonhard Ragaz. Her work appeared in his journal Neue Wege from 1935–1965. In Zurich, Susman also became the center of a circle of young German and Swiss Jewish intellectuals, acting as a mentor to and source of intellectual and emotional support for many of its participants, notably the philosophers Michael Landmann, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, and Jacob Taubes.