 One of the first women distinguished as a philosopher and public intellectual in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany as well as in Switzerland (her home in early adolescence and her home again after 1933) and a prominent exponent of German Jewish intellectual life during the time of the Jewish Renaissance, Susman played an important role in the literary circles of Stefan George and Karl Wolfskehl. She was also a close associate of Georg Simmel and facilitated his reception after 1945 with her collaboration on the first edition of a collection of his selected essays, titled Brücke und Tür, and her monograph Die geistige Gestalt Georg Simmels (Georg Simmel’s Intellectual Contour). A distinct voice among philosophers and intellectuals during the Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, Susman became a symbol of the endurance of the legacy of German Jewish thought after 1945. Her thought both anticipated and left a formative imprint on the writings of Buber, Bloch, Benjamin, Scholem, Adorno, Jacob Taubes, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, and others.