Jewish Communist in Weimar Germany

• Utgivningsdatum: 2017-07-27
• Mått: 155 x 235 x 43 mm
• Vikt: 1 147 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Historical Materialism Book Series
• Antal sidor: 14
• Förlag: Brill
• ISBN: 9789004309524
• Originaltitel: Werner Scholem - eine politische Biographie (1895-1940)
• Översättare: Loren Balhorn, Jan-Peter Herrmann

• Marxism och kommunism
• Filosofiska discipliner
• Biografi: historia, politik och försvar
• Sociala grupper och identitet

Ralf Hoffrogge, Dr. phil. (2013), University of Potsdam, is Postdoctoral Researcher at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) and has published widely on German labour history. His latest publication is Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement (Brill, 2014).

Reviews from the German press (quotes translated into English):"The most interesting parts of Hoffrogge's work are perhaps the thick descriptions of the Weimar Republic's communist milieu with its peculiar mixture of dogmatism and careerism, male chauvinism and women's emancipation, puritanism and sexual permissiveness. The interesting figure here is Scholem's wife Emmy, who came from humble background, eager to learn and climb the social ladder, aware of her chances for emancipation and equipped with all the weapons of a woman." - Gerd Koenen, DIE ZEIT, full review here “… in the field of historical research, it is the more refined work by Ralf Hoffrogge that will make a lasting impression. His reconstruction of events is the only one that allows us to understand Scholem's arrest and trial … ” - Lorenz Jaeger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 4th 2014“... Two recently published biographies that could not be more different are devoted to the life of this exceptional politician, to whom the historian Miriam Zadoff attributed an "agile temperament", but also depicted him in an apotheosis of suffering, comparing Scholem to the biblical Job. Quite different is the sober reconstruction of the historian Ralf Hoffrogge, invariably oriented towards the facts. Almost entirely without gaps, this political biography reconstructs the twisted lifeline of Scholem in the context of its time. The merit of both biographies consists not least in the fact that here for the first time a personality is portrayed who embodied in his intellectual and political action the intrinsic ambiguity of the period between the two world wars.” - Wolf Scheller in Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung, full review here DocumentaryThe filmmaker Niels Bolbrinker has portrayed Werner Scholem´s life in the short 17-minute documentary "Between Utopia and Counter Revolution". It features an impressive Interview with Scholem´s daugther Renee Goddard (*1923) who talks about the tragic arrest of her parents after the Nazis took power in 1933. The film is based on the recent biography written by Ralf Hoffrogge. Watch the subtitled documentary here .

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