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Shulamit Volkov.Walther Rathenau: Weimar's Fallen Statesman. Jewish Lives Series.
Shulamit volkov biography of william
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. ix + 240 pp. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-14431-4.
Reviewed by Michael A. Meyer (Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati)
Published on H-Judaic (April, 2012)
Commissioned by Jason Kalman (Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion)
The Tragedy of a Talented German Jew
When Weimar's foreign minister, Walther Rathenau, was assassinated by right-wing extremists in 1922, having just achieved his goal of reaching the inner circle of political decision making, the outpouring of mourners was astounding.
Perhaps as many as a million Berliners marched in the funeral procession with similarly striking numbers in other cities. His friend and early biographer, Count Harry Kessler, asserted that "not since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has the death of a statesman so shaken a whole nation."[1] Rathenau's death was