Ludger Heid, Dr. Phil.Habil, is a lecturer at the Universities of Duisburg/Essen and Potsdam. He has published Maloche—nicht Mildtütigkeit. Ostjüdische Arbeiter in Deutschland, 1914–1923 (1995) and Oskar Cohn. Ein Sozialist und Zionist im Kaiserreich und in der Weimarer Republik (2002). He edited Eduard Bernstein: “Ich bin der Letzte, der dazu schweigt.” Texte in jüdischen Angelegenheiten (2004) and “Das nenne ich ein haltbares Bündnis.” Arnold Zweig/Beatrice Zweig und Ruth Klinger. Briefwechsel (1936–1962) (2005).
Rosi Wolfstein’s life constituted a battle against war, racism, and social injustice. She worked with other socialist political figures such as Rosa Luxemburg, helped found the Independent Social Democratic Party, and was a representative for the German Communist Party. Despite having to flee to the United Stattes during World War II, Wolfstein returned to Germany and remained active in party and workplace politics until her death.
Toni Sender’s wide-ranging quest to save the world led her from the union hall to the German Parliament (as a socialist) and finally to the United Nations. She helped found Germany’s Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD) and served in the German Parliament from 1924 to 1933. After fleeing to the United States in 1933, she joined the board of the German American Council for the Liberation of Germany from Nazism, and after 1944 she became active with the UN, retiring in 1956.
Mascha Kaléko was a German-Jewish poet whose literary works have made her a mainstay of the German poetic cannon. She is best known for content, diction, rhythm, and Kalékoesque rhyme.
