During ANTIQUES ROADSHOW’s visit to the Maryland Zoo in June 2024, a guest named Linda brought in a striking doll with long blonde hair and soft eyes that she inherited from her grandmother. Dolls ...

She was born Rozalia Luksenburg in Poland in 1871. Against the triple historical whammy of being “a girl, a Jew, a cripple,” as Vivian Gornick put it, she opposed an overpowering intellect and a ...

As Luxemburg wrote, “It’s the German thoroughness that prevents a true picture of life or of the times from being created, a picture that should be tossed off with light strokes.” The bulk of the ...

This book includes 190 letters written to leading figures in the European and international labor and socialist movements––Leo Jogiches, Karl Kautsky, Clara Zetkin and Karl Liebknecht––who were among ...

The Antioch Review, founded in 1941, is one of the oldest, continuously publishing quarterly literary magazines in America. It publishes fiction, essays, and poetry from both emerging and established ...

This article used research from Kiel Uprising: Women's activism and the German Revolution November 1918, an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project. It’s been 100 years since the Marxist ...

To mark the anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg's birth 147 years ago (5 March) we offer this translation of Onorato Damen's introduction to the Italian translation to her famous work on the Russian ...

Facing an interrogator in the hour before her death, Rosa Luxemburg reached into her handbag for needle and cotton and deftly repaired the hem of her skirt, which had frayed during her abduction. She ...

In early 2010, I happened to be in Berlin wandering around Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and I started to wonder what had happened to the corpse, so I called Dr. Tsokos and, on a frozen January day, went to ...

Edited by Annelies Laschitza, Georg Adler, and Peter Hudis, trans. from the German by George Shriver, Verso, $39.95 (640p) ISBN 978-1-84467-453-4 In spite of her identity as a Polish Jew, Communist ...