Alexander Stein (journalist)

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Alexander N. Rubinštejn ( Latvian : Aleksandrs Rubinšteins ) (born January 27, 1881 in Wolmar , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire ; † December 19, 1948 in New York City , New York ) was a Jewish journalist and publicist who worked under the pseudonym Alexander Stein published.

Life

Stein's ancestors were German-speaking Jews from Mitau . His parents ran a clothing store in Valmiera, where he and his two brothers attended German elementary school. He studied at the Riga Polytechnic and was active in the Russian labor movement. After the revolution in 1905 he was forced to emigrate. He reached Berlin via Zurich and Leipzig. He wrote for the Leipziger Volkszeitung and Die Neue Zeit . With Rudolf Breitscheid he published Socialist Foreign Policy , after 1918 Der Sozialist . He was a member of the editorial team of Freedom , the organ of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) from 1919, and of the Vorwärts from 1922. In 1925 he was secretary of the central education committee of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and editor of the monthly magazine Socialist Education of the Reich Committee for socialist educational work. In 1926 he became director of the Free Socialist University in Berlin. In 1933 he emigrated to Prague. There he worked for the magazines Neuer Vorwärts and Sozialistische Aktion . He fled to Paris in 1938 and to New York in 1940, where he wrote for the Neue Volks-Zeitung and the Jewish Daily Forward .

Stein is the father of Nina Rubinstein , who was born in Berlin in 1908.

Without being divorced from his Russian wife, Elly Kaiser became his partner in Berlin and the mother of his second daughter Hanna Papanek. In the United States, Stein married Kaiser.

Publications

  • The problem of the international. With appendix: Resolutions and guidelines of the Second and Third Internationals. Freedom Publishing Cooperative, Berlin 1919
  • The Socialist International, in: The Liberation of Mankind. Ideas of freedom in the past and present. Edited by Ignaz Ježower . Bong, Berlin 1921
  • Adolf Hitler, disciple of the Elders of Zion . Graphia, Karlsbad 1936
    • again: ça ira Verlag , Freiburg 2011. Eds. Lynn Ciminski, Martin Schmitt. Preface Hanna Papanek

literature

  • Lynn Ciminski, Martin Schmitt, eds., Alexander Stein: "Adolf Hitler, pupil of the 'wise men of Zion'" . ça ira, Freiburg 2011 ISBN 3862591034
    • therein: dsb., "... the complete extermination of the Jews set as the goal". Alexander Stein's book "Adolf Hitler, pupil of the 'wise men of Zion'" (1936) between practical defense and theoretical criticism of National Socialist anti-Semitism, pp. 169-276
    • therein: Hanna Papanek, Bibliography Alexander Stein, pp. 297–309
    • therein: Hanna Papanek, Who was Alexander Stein? Pp. 9-17
  • Hanna Papanek: Alexander Stein (pseudonym: Viator) 1881–1948, Socialist Activist and Writer in Russia, Germany, and Exile: Biography and Bibliography, in: International scientific correspondence on the history of the German labor movement , 30, 1994, pp. 343–379
  • Hanna Papanek: Did Alexander Stein have a Bolshevik past? Questions about the source situation in the early days of the Mensheviks, in: International scientific correspondence on the history of the German labor movement, 35, 1999, pp. 394–399
  • Hanna Papanek: Elly and Alexander. Revolution, Red Berlin, flight, exile. A socialist family story. Forward, Berlin 2006. ISBN 3866026005 with ill.
  • Aleksanders Feigmanis: On the history of the Jews in Livonia , in Judaica , 4, ISSN  0022-572X p. 235
  • Biographical Lexicon of Socialism Volume I Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. GmbH Hanover pp. 300–301
  • Michael Hagemeister : The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in court. The Bern Trial 1933–1937 and the “Anti-Semitic International” . Zurich: Chronos, 2017, ISBN 978-3-0340-1385-7 , short biography p. 572
  • Stein, Alexander , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 724

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notes

  1. ↑ in her novel-like "extended autobiography", German 2006, Papanek goes into the fact that Kaiser thought up a deceased husband while immigrating as a refugee to the USA and forged corresponding papers in order to satisfy the moral requirements of the US immigration authorities, p. 155ff.
  2. ↑ With a historical contextualization (by the editors), further texts by Stein and Boris Iwanowitsch Nikolajewski , a curriculum vitae, bibliography, see section Literature
  3. ↑ on the publisher's pages are sections, u. a. the foreword by Papanek, read: Register "Stein"
  4. ↑ expanded version of the bibliography Papanek 1994
  5. ↑ expanded in the book from 2011, see above
personal data
SURNAME Stein, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rubinštejn, Alexander N. (real name); Rubinšteins, Aleksandrs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolmar , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1948
Place of death New York City , New York