Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust: Otto Heller (1897-1945)
An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question.
| Résumé: | An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question. Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword and Acknowledgments -- Prologue: A Jewish Question on the Death March -- The Decline of Judaism, Its Decline, and Its Discontents -- On Radical Assimilation and "The Non-Jewish Jew" -- On Socialism, Marxism, Communism, Jewish Nationalism, and the Jewish Question -- Structure, Sources, and Methods -- Chapter 1. Origins of a Jewish Question (1897-1932) -- Fin-de-siècle Vienna -- Czechoslovakian Bohemia -- Weimar Berlin -- Off to Birobidzhan -- Chapter 2. The Decline of Judaism (1931) -- Sunset or Sunrise? -- "Exploited Masses of Jewish Nationality": Is There a Jewish Proletariat? -- "Trading-People": Is There a Jewish Nation? -- Chapter 3. In Flight from Two Dictators (1933-1939) -- From Berlin to Zürich -- In Stalin's Moscow -- Via Madrid to Paris -- Chapter 4. "The Jew Is to Be Burned" (1939) -- German Communists on the Jewish Question under Nazism -- A Manuscript Written "At the Crossroads" -- Forerunners or Victims of Capitalism? -- Antisemitism: The End or the Beginning? -- "There Is No Longer a Jewish Question in the Soviet Union" -- "No Matter! The Jew Is to Be Burned" -- Chapter 5. In Fight (1940-1945) -- Resistance in France -- Underground in Auschwitz -- Epilogue: The Road Not Taken -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 1438495935 |