Language:
German
Pages:
176 + 4 pages :
,
typescript (photocopy).
Year of publication:
1957
Former Title:
Memoirs
Keywords:
Wolf family Genealogy.
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Gurs (Concentration camp)
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Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands.
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Spartakusbund (Germany)
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Anti-fascist movements.
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Communists.
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Feminism.
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Government, Resistance to.
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Jewish families
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Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding.
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Political refugees.
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Prisoners.
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Women authors.
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Women Education.
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Women Political activity.
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World War, 1939-1945.
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Berlin (Germany)
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Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
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France.
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Germany (East) Emigration and immigration 1947.
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Autobiographies
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Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The autobiography was written in a fictional style, conveying the author's experiences in the eyes of the main character named "Miriam". Description of the author's family history. Her maternal family had a family tradition of talmudic scholars and rabbis. Her paternal grandparents were innkeepers. Recha's father lived in the United States for some time, before he returned to Germany. Childhood recollections. The family had a raw product store in the outskirts of Frankfurt. Schooling in the high daughter's institute. Early awareness of differences in the social standing. Friendship with Frieda Schwab, who introduced her to the world of Ibsen's dramas and the awakening women's movement. Recha enrolled in the teacher's seminary, where she finally found an environment suiting her ambition. After graduation she was confronted with the difficulties of getting a teaching position due to her Jewish descent. Acquaintance with Bertha Pappenheim, who was taking over the Jewish orphanage in her neighborhood. Recha started to work as a teacher at the orphanage and initiated a vocational agency to support the graduating female students in their quest to find work. Interest in Socialism. Recha took classes of national economics. Contact with a group of Russian Socialists. Desire to enroll at university was met with difficulties within her family. With the support of Lujo Bretano she was accepted as an extern student at the university of Munich, where she took classes in national economics with Bretano. Acquaintance with Ellinor Droesser, Anita Augspurg and Lida Gustava Heymann of the women's suffragette. Friendship with leftist students of the "Freie Studentenschaft". Death of her father in 1906. Sommer semester at the university of Heidelberg.
Abstract:
Move to Berlin, where Recha continued her studies. She attended a seminary by professor Kurt Breysig, member of the Stefan George circle, and made the acquaintance of Karl Gareis and Franz Rosenzweig. Final examination (Abitur) in 1910 in order to enroll officially at university. Studies of history. Romance with Carl Einstein. In 1911 Recha went to Paris to work on her dissertation. Brief attraction towards Catholic mysticism. Exhaustion due to extensive studies and recovery in a sanatorium. Position as a social worker in Frankfurt and Dresden. Outbreak of World War One. Recha became member of the Spartakists. End of the war and Spartakist revolution. Recha Rothschild joined the Communist party and continued her work on women's issues. Acquaintance with Clara Zetkin. Illegality of the Communist party and arrest. Work as an editor for the party press in Duesseldorf, Essen, Mannheim, Stuttgart and Cologne. Occasional antisemitic experiences as well as resentments of male colleagues against her editorship. Speeches at Socialist women's organizations. Inflation and political turmoil. Stay in Paris and work on translations. Journey to the Soviet Union in 1929. Rising Nazism. Nazi take-over and life underground. Continuation of her political activities in hiding. Recha was arrested and after numerous interrogations she was sentenced to two years of prison. After her release in 1936 she managed to get to Switzerland, and from there she crossed the border to France, where she continued her political activities. German occupation. Internment of German emigrants and account of life in Gurs. Recha succeeded in leaving the camp and continued her activities for the resistance in hiding. Deportation of relatives and friends. Recha survived the war in hiding. Liberation and continuation of her political activities in Paris. Return to her former party colleagues in Berlin.
Abstract:
The following individuals are mentioned:
Abstract:
Breysig, Kurt, 1866-1940; Einstein, Carl, 1885-1940; Florin, Wilhelm, 1894-1944; Frank, Leonhard, 1882-1961; Frank, Ludwig, 1874-1914; Zetkin, Klara, 1857-1933; Rothschild, Recha, 1880-1964; Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943; Juchacz, Marie, 1879-1956; Kisch, Egon Erwin, 1885-1948; Landauer, Gustav, 1870-1919; Levi, Paul, 1883-1930; Lindau, Rudolf, 1829-1910; Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919; Niekisch, Ernst, 1889-1967, 1889-1967; Pappenheim, Bertha, 1859-1936; Péguy, Charles, 1873-1914; Pieck, Wilhelm, 1876-1960; Rosenzweig, Franz, 1886-1929; Alpari, Julius, 1882-1944; Augsburg, Anita, 1857-1943; Bohm-Schuch, Clara, 1879-1936; Bretano, Lujo; Debor, Dora; Drösser, Ellinor; Fischer, Ruth, 1895- ; Friedländer, Salomo (Mynona), 1871-1946; Wossikowski, Irene; Gareis, Karl, -1921; Rubiner, Ludwig, 1861-1920; Schwab, Frieda; Seiwert, Franz Willhelm, 1894-1933; Stöcker, Walter, 1891-1939; Thälmann, Ernst, 1886-1944; Waldberg, Clarissa; Wolf, Stella.
Note:
Available on microfilm
,
German
,
4 page synopsis in English
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