1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910821398003321

Autore

Hoffrogge Ralf <1980->

Titolo

A Jewish Communist in Weimar Germany : the life of Werner Scholem (1895-1940) / / by Ralf Hoffrogge ; translated by Loren Balhorn, Jan-Peter Herrmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill.

c2017

ISBN

90-04-33726-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (654 pages)

Collana

Historical materialism book series ; ; Vol. 141

Disciplina

940.53/18092

Soggetti

Jews - Germany

Jewish communists - Germany

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Introduction -- Adolescent Years (1895–1914) -- World War and Revolution (1914–18) -- A Rebel at the Editing Desk, a Rebel in Parliament (1919–24) -- Communism: Utopia and Apparatus (1921–6) -- A Reluctant Defector: Werner Scholem as Dissident (1926–8) -- Back to the Lecture Hall: Family and University Life in Berlin -- The Triumph of Barbarism (1933–40) -- Remembering Werner Scholem -- Chronology of Werner Scholem’s life -- List of Werner Scholem’s Places of Detention, 1917–40 -- Selected Articles and Publications by Werner Scholem -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Walter Benjamin derided Werner Scholem as a ‘rogue’ in 1924. Josef Stalin referred him as a ‘splendid man’, but soon backtracked and labeled him an ‘imbecile’, while Ernst Thälmann, chairman of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), warned his followers against the dangers of ‘Scholemism’. For the philosopher and historian Gershom Scholem, however, Werner was first and foremost his older brother. The life of German-Jewish Communist Werner Scholem (1895–1940) had many facets. Werner and Gerhard, later Gershom, rebelled together against their authoritarian father and the atmosphere of national chauvinism engulfing Germany during World War I. After inspiring his



younger brother to take up the Zionist cause, Werner himself underwent a long personal journey before deciding to join the Communist struggle. Scholem climbed the party ladder and orchestrated the KPD's ‘Bolshevisation’ campaign, only to be expelled as one of Stalin's opponents in 1926. He was arrested in 1933, and ultimately murdered in the Buchenwald concentration camp seven years later. This first biography of Werner Scholem tells his life story by drawing on a wide range of original sources and archive material long hidden beyond the Iron Curtain of the Cold War era. First published in German by UVK Verlagsgesellschaft as Werner Scholem - eine politische Biographie (1895-1940) , Konstanz, 2014.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910137798403321

Titolo

Journal of wine research

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Oxfordshire, England], : Carfax International Publishers, 1990-

[Abingdon, UK] : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

ISSN

1469-9672

Disciplina

634.8

Soggetti

Viticulture

Viticulture - Great Britain

Wine and wine making

Wine

Zeitschrift

Weinbau

Wein

Viticulture - Grande-Bretagne

Periodicals.

Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Title from contents screen (Informaworld, viewed Apr. 19, 2007).