Fraenkel Prize Lecture: The Life of Werner Scholem

Werner Scholem always took the difficult path. Born in 1895 in Berlin into a middle-class Jewish family, he married a proletarian girl and earned his living as an editor of the Communist Journal 'Die Rote Fahne'. As an early critic of Stalin he was expelled from the German Communist Party in the mid-1920s. For the National Socialists he represented - as a Communist and Jew - the enemy par excellence. In 1940 he was murdered in Buchenwald concentration camp. The story of his life encapsulates a whole era, exposing the inner conflicts of German society and the difficult reality of life for Jews in Germany between the wars. Mirjam Zadoff is an historian of Modern Jewish history who holds the Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University. Her award-winning research includes the book Next Year in Marienbad: The Lost Worlds of Jewish Spa Culture (Philadelphia, 2012). Her biography of Werner Scholem has recently been published in German as Der rote Hiob: Das Leben des Werner Scholem (Munich, 2014)

Suitable for
18+

Admission
free but booking essential as space is limited

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Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/am52233?id=EVENT524528