Vera Broido

Vera Broido (born September 7, 1907 in Saint Petersburg ; died February 11, 2004 at Stevenage ) was a Russian-British writer .

Life

Vera had spent three years in exile in Siberia with her mother Eva Lwowna Broido during the Tsarist period, experienced war and revolution in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and from 1920 lived in the Russian-Jewish community in Berlin. In 1925 she went to Paris to the Sorbonne for some time . More important to her, however, was studying painting with Alexandra Exter and the Charleston dancing with Stanislawski's son.

She returned to Berlin around 1930. Here she frequented the Bohème in Berlin and began a long-standing menage-à-trois with the Dadaist Raoul Hausmann and his new wife. She became his muse and the model of his famous series of nudes. In March 1933 she accompanied them to Ibiza. In August 1934 she had to flee again because of her Jewish origins and emigrated to England.

In 1941 she married Norman Cohn and five years later their son Nik Cohn was born.

With her language skills, she supported Norman Cohn in his research on the early history of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion .

Works

• Russian childhood ; 1933
• Apostles into terrorists: women and the revolutionary movement in the Russia of Alexander II ; 1977
• Lenin and the Mensheviks ; 1987
• Daughter of revolution: a Russian girlhood remembered ; 1988
• Daughter of the revolution ; 2004

literature

• 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 , p. 521

supporting documents

1. ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=73017720
2. ↑ http://dadasurr.blogspot.com/2011/08/raoul-hausmann-photographies.html
3. ↑ http://www.zeit.de/1994/34/fmsbwtoezaeu-oder-fort-mit-stuehlen-und-gefuehlen
4. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/nik-cohn-fever-dream.html?_r=1&pagewanted=3&ref=rockmusic