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Walter Rathenau: The Life of Weimar's Fallen Statesman
| Location: | New York, United States |
| Lecture Date: | 2012-05-22 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2012-05-07 |
| Announcement ID: |
194386 |
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Shulamit Volkov will discuss her new book, "Walther Rathenau: The Life of Weimar’s Fallen Statesman" (Yale University Press, 2012). This deeply informed biography tells of a man who—both thoroughly German and unabashedly Jewish—rose to leadership in the German War-Ministry Department during the First World War, and later to the exalted position of foreign minister in the early days of the Weimar Republic. His achievement was unprecedented—no Jew in Germany had ever attained such high political rank. But Rathenau's success was marked by tragedy: within months he was assassinated by right-wing extremists seeking to destroy the newly formed Republic. Drawing on Rathenau's papers and on a depth of knowledge of both modern German and German-Jewish history, Shulamit Volkov creates a finely drawn portrait of this complex man who struggled with his Jewish identity and who treasured his "otherness." Volkov also places Rathenau in the dual context of Weimar Germany and of Berlin’s financial and intellectual elite. Above all, she illuminates the complex social and psychological milieu of German Jewry in the period before Hitler’s rise to power.
Admission: $10 general; $8 CJH, LBI members; $5 seniors, students. Tickets at www.smarttix.com or 212-868-4444.
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Judith C. Siegel
Director of Academic and Public Programs
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
(T) 212 294-8314
(F) 212 294-8302
Email: jsiegel@cjh.org
Visit the website at http://www.programs.cjh.org
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