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

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 ph...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill.
c2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Historical Materialism Book Series 141.
Physical Description:1 online resource (654 pages).
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