Jewish Communist in Weimar Germany: The Life of Werner Scholem (1895-1940) by Ralf Hoffrogge

Jewish Communist in Weimar Germany: The Life of Werner Scholem (1895-1940)

Historical Materialism Book Series #141

Ralf Hoffrogge

660 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

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Walter Benjamin derided Werner Scholem as a 'rascal' in 1924. Joseph Stalin referred him as a 'splendid man', but soon backtracked and labeled him an 'imbecile', while Ernst Th lmann, chairman of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), warned his fo...

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