Iosif Menassievich Bikerman

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Iosif Menassievich Bikerman (also Joseph biker man , * 1867 , † 1945 ) was a from Russia originating journalist and author .

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Bikerman was the son of the publisher Elias Bikerman, who u. a. had published the works of Pushkin . To his circle of friends belonged u. a. the author Michail Morgulis (1837-1912). Around 1900 he participated in the journal Russkoje Bogatstvo in debates of the Jewish-Russian intelligentsia on questions of Zionism versus the autonomy or Russification of the Jewish minority in the Tsarist Empire .

In Berlin Bikerman belonged to a group of exiled intellectuals, journalists and lawyers in the “right-wing conservative spectrum”; together with Grigorij Landau, Daniil Pasmannik u. a. he wrote and published the essay volume The upheaval in Russia and the fate of the Russian Jews (1924). Bikerman dealt in his contribution to the anthology "with the danger that lies in the Jewish presence in the ruling apparatus, and with the self-image of the Jews that prevents them from even perceiving this danger and from keeping their distance from the Bolsheviks ". 1921–1922 he was also one of the authors who published in the Slovo Publishing House. He also researched and published on the history of the Maccabees .

His sons were the ancient historian Elias Bickermann (1897–1981) and the chemist Josef Jacob Bikerman (1898–1978), both of whom later emigrated to the United States.

Publications (selection)

  • Iosif Manasievich Bikerman: Россійская революція и государственная Дума [Russian Revolution and State Duma] (1906)
  • The upheaval in Russia and the fate of the Russian Jews: a compilation (1925, author, co-editor)
  • Iosif Menassievich Bikerman: Dr Paul Nathan and the Problem of the Eastern Jews. Patriotic Association of Russian Jews Abroad. 1927
  • Ten Years of Bolshevic Domination (Editor)
  • IM Bikerman, Félix García: Don Quixote y Fausto, los héroes y las obras, Barcelona, ​​Araluce [1932]
  • Joseph Bickermann: Freedom and equality: a sociological investigation into the basic problem of human society . A. Collignon, 1934

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zsuzsa Het'nyi: In a Maelstrom: The History of Russian-Jewish Prose (1860-1940) . 2008
  2. ^ Jörg Schulte, Olga Tabachnikova, Peter Wagstaff The Russian Jewish Diaspora and European Culture, 1917-1937 . 2012
  3. ^ Colin Shindler, The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron . 2015, p. 28
  4. ↑ Simon Rabinovitch: Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia . Stanford University Press. 2015
  5. ^ J Hartmut Stern: Jewish declarations of war on Germany: wording, prehistory, consequences. FZ-Verlag, 2000
  6. ↑ Amory Burchard: Club of Russian Poets in Berlin 1920-1941: Institutions of literary life in exile . Sagner in commission, 2001
  7. ↑ Sonja Margolina : The end of lies. Russia and the Jews in the 20th Century. Siedler, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-88680-449-6 .
  8. ↑ Quoted from Sonja Margolina: The end of lies. Russia and the Jews in the 20th Century. Siedler, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-88680-449-6 . P. 59 f.
  9. ^ On behalf of the Historical Commission of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, edited by Monika Estermann, Ursula Rautenberg. 2009, p. 198
personal data
SURNAME Bikerman, Iosif Menassievich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Russia
DATE OF DEATH 1945