Language:
German
Pages:
3 + 149 pages :
,
bound mimeographs.
Year of publication:
1959-1964
Keywords:
Mühsam, Erich,
;
Mühsam, Hans.
;
Silbergleit, Arthur,
;
Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft.
;
Antisemitism.
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Authors.
;
Education, Higher.
;
Lawyers.
;
Jewish families
;
Orthodox Judaism.
;
Red Cross and Red Crescent.
;
Students' societies.
;
World War, 1914-1918.
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Brandenburg (Germany)
;
Chemnitz (Germany)
;
Germany History 1918-1933.
;
Görlitz (Görlitz, Germany)
;
Israel.
;
Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948.
;
Zittau (Germany)
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Family history: father opened clothing store in Brandenburg; bankruptcy and move to Chemnitz where father opened shoe store; visits to uncle in Luebeck; helps in his father's store; move to Zittau (Saxony); description of small orthodox Jewish community of Zittau; anti-Semitism in school; limits of social integration of Jews; Christmas celebration at home; university studies in Freiburg, Munich and Leipzig; Max Weber among his professors; member of "Sozial-wissensschaftliche Vereinigung" and the primarily Jewish student fraternity "Thuringia"; his cousins, the writer and anarchist Erich Muehsam, and the Zionist Hans Muehsam; apprenticeship as lawyer in Mittenwalde; lawyer in Goerlitz; Jewish community of Goerlitz; moves only in Jewish circles; beginnings of his literary career; with beginning of World War I Muehsam became pacifist; in "Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft" and International Red Cross; encounters with Else Lasker-Schueler, Martin Buber and Stefan Zweig; Revolution of 1918-19 and political events of Weimar Germany; after World War I considered himself primarily a writer; literary circles of Weimar Germany; friendship with the writer Arthur Silbergleit; emigration and life in Palestine; last volume on death of his wife and continuation of literary work in Israel.
Note:
Available on microfilm
,
German
,
Synopsis in file
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