LEADER 03555nam 2200493 450 001 9910821398003321 005 20230809224903.0 010 $a90-04-33726-1 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004337268 035 $a(CKB)3710000001417297 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4920874 035 $a 2017019364 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004337268 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001417297 100 $a20170419d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Jewish Communist in Weimar Germany $ethe life of Werner Scholem (1895-1940) /$fby Ralf Hoffrogge ; translated by Loren Balhorn, Jan-Peter Herrmann 210 1$aLeiden ;$aBoston :$cBrill. 210 4$dc2017. 215 $a1 online resource (654 pages) 225 0 $aHistorical materialism book series ;$vVol. 141 311 $a90-04-30952-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront 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. 330 $aWalter Benjamin derided Werner Scholem as a ?rogue? in 1924. Josef Stalin referred him as a ?splendid man?, but soon backtracked and labeled him an ?imbecile?, while Ernst Thälmann, chairman of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), warned his followers against the dangers of ?Scholemism?. For the philosopher and historian Gershom Scholem, however, Werner was first and foremost his older brother. The life of German-Jewish Communist Werner Scholem (1895?1940) had many facets. Werner and Gerhard, later Gershom, rebelled together against their authoritarian father and the atmosphere of national chauvinism engulfing Germany during World War I. After inspiring his younger brother to take up the Zionist cause, Werner himself underwent a long personal journey before deciding to join the Communist struggle. Scholem climbed the party ladder and orchestrated the KPD's ?Bolshevisation? campaign, only to be expelled as one of Stalin's opponents in 1926. He was arrested in 1933, and ultimately murdered in the Buchenwald concentration camp seven years later. This first biography of Werner Scholem tells his life story by drawing on a wide range of original sources and archive material long hidden beyond the Iron Curtain of the Cold War era. First published in German by UVK Verlagsgesellschaft as Werner Scholem - eine politische Biographie (1895-1940) , Konstanz, 2014. 410 0$aHistorical Materialism Book Series$v141. 606 $aJews$zGermany$vBiography 606 $aJewish communists$zGermany$vBiography 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$zGermany 615 0$aJews 615 0$aJewish communists 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 676 $a940.53/18092 700 $aHoffrogge$b Ralf$f1980-$01594104 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821398003321 996 $aA Jewish Communist in Weimar Germany$93914535 997 $aUNINA