Walther Rathenau: The Limits of Success (Jewish lives) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Walther Rathenau A biography of Walther Rathenau (1867-1922) that 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.
Full description- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Published: 01 March 2012
- Format: Hardback 256 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Biography: Religious & Spiritual | Jewish Studies | European History
- ISBN 13: 9780300144314 ISBN 10: 0300144318
- Sales rank: 276,683
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Full description for Walther Rathenau
This deeply informed biography of Walther Rathenau (1867-1922) 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.
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