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Werner Scholem - A German Life (Hardcover)
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Werner Scholem - A German Life (Hardcover)
Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Werner Scholem never took the easy path. Born in 1895 into the
Berlin Jewish middle class, he married a young non-Jewish woman of
proletarian background. He was the youngest member of the Prussian
Parliament in the 1920s, one of the leaders of the German Communist
Party, and the editor of the influential journal The Red Flag. As
an outspoken critic of Stalin, he was soon expelled from the party,
only to take up a position at the head of a revolutionary
Trotskyite faction in the years before 1933. Reviled by the
National Socialists as a Communist and a Jew, he was among the
first to be arrested when Hitler rose to power and, after a long
incarceration, was murdered in Buchenwald. In Werner Scholem: A
German Life Mirjam Zadoff has written a book that is at once a
biography of an individual, a family chronicle, and the story of an
entire era. It is an account of the ruptures within a society and
of the growing insecurity in which German Jews lived between the
two world wars-and especially of two brothers who chose opposing
paths out of the shared conviction that there was no future for
Jews in Germany after the First World War. While Werner pinned his
hopes on a universal revolution he would never see, the younger
Gerhard emigrated to Palestine where, as Gershom, he would choose
revolutionary Zionism and the reanimation of ancient strains of
Jewish mysticism.
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