1/25 | Birthday of Emil Ludwig
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 25 Birthday of Emil Ludwig, German Writer Emil Ludwig was born Emil Cohn on January 25, 1881 in Breslau (today Wrocław, Poland). The son of a Jewish ophthalmologist, Ludwig studied law but chose to pursue a career in writing. At first he wrote plays and novels and also worked as a journalist, moving to Switzerland in 1906. During World War I he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt in Vienna and Istanbul. Although Ludwig converted to Catholicism as a young man, he renounced his conversion following the murder of German foreign...
Read More1/21 | Birthday of Moses Hess
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 21 200th Birthday of Moses Hess, Radical Thinker Two hundred years ago today Moses Hess was born in Bonn, (his given name was Moïses as Bonn was then part of the First French Empire), at Judengasse 807. He had a traditional Jewish education, but learned French and German as well. After leaving the University of Bonn, Hess moved to Cologne and founded what was perhaps the first socialist journal. His ideas on collectives and community as well as on Jewish life would later be developed by his colleagues Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels into Communism....
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