Kelly, Stuart. “Book review: The Overhaul, Kathleen Jamie”. Scotland on Sunday.
Rosa Luxemburg
Standard Name: Luxemburg, Rosa
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Arendt | Her mother, born Martha Cohn
, was the daughter of Jacob Cohn, who made a great deal of money importing tea. Martha was responsible for HA
's upbringing, which she recorded in a book entitled... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Tillie Olsen | By late 1929 Tillie Lerner met Abraham Jevons Goldfarb
, a radical writer who was like herself the child of Russian Jewish immigrants to the USA. She ran away with him after her eighteenth birthday... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Jamie | In the title piece a boat pulled up out of the water awaits repair and refitting: it's a time-of-life thing, / it's a waiting game. |
Performance of text | Pam Gems | PG
adapted two plays by French women for a performance at the Soho Poly
this year: My Name is Rosa Luxemburg, adapted from Marianne Auricost
, and The Rivers and Forests, adapted from Marguerite Duras
. Aston, Elaine. “Pam Gems: Body Politics and Biography”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 157-73. 171 |
Publishing | Antonia Fraser | She followed it with Love Letters: An Anthology, dedicated to Harold Pinter
and published in later 1976. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010. 62 |
Textual Features | Pam Gems | PG
structured the play in short scenes she refers to as takes or condensed fragments, because she felt that contemporary audiences, being reared on film and television, responded in a synaptic way to material... |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | This volume's title and epigraph are taken from The Great Gatsby. Like AR
's other works, Dark Fields of the Republic reflects a diverse group of artistic and social influences, which include the Bible... |
Textual Production | Hannah Arendt | Authors or politicians whom HA
wrote about in articles, reviews, or editions (excluding those essays reprinted in Men in Dark Times) include Konrad Adenauer
, W. H. Auden
, Wilhelm Dilthey
, Waldemar Gurian |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hannah Arendt |
Timeline
December 1914
German anti-militarists including Rosa Luxemburg
, Clara Zetkin
, and Karl Liebknecht
founded the secret political organization called the Spartakusbund
or Spartacus League.
15 January 1919
Rosa Luxemburg
and Karl Liebknecht
, co-founders of the Spartacus League
(December 1914), were murdered in Berlin.
10 May 1933
Following a speech from Joseph Goebbels
, over 40,000 people participated in burning books to cleanse German literature and root out Jewish intellectualism.
Texts
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