Can I read Walther Rathenau : The Life of Weimar's Fallen Statesman on EtoBox?

Walther Rathenau : The Life of Weimar's Fallen Statesman by Shulamit Ṿolḳov is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Walther Rathenau : The Life of Weimar's Fallen Statesman about?

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a figure of great intellectual power who ran the German state, however briefly, during one of its most tumultuous periods, and whose life was "the essence of German Jewish history." 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 yet treasured his "otherness." Volkov also places Rathenau in the dual context of Imperial and Weimar Germany and of Berlin's financial and intellectual elite. Above all, she illuminates the complex social

Who reads Walther Rathenau : The Life of Weimar's Fallen Statesman?

Author

Shulamit Ṿolḳov

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300178470

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (21 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14