Weimar Germany's Left-Wing Intellectuals: A Political History of the Weltbühne and Its Circle

The Germany between the two world wars, which produced some of the greatest literary lights of the century, also produced a forum worthy of them: the brilliantly edited, crusading, lef-oriented (but not party-affiliated) Weltbühne. The present book tells the history of this weekly Berlin journal, discusses the men that ran it and wrote it, and outlines the causes for which it fought.

The Weltbühne had three editors—the uncompromising style-conscious Siegfried Jacobsohn, the sharp-tongued, s...