Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust

An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question. This book explores the confrontation of radically assimilated Jews with the violent collapse of their envisioned integration into a cosmopolitan European society, which culminated during the Holocaust. This confrontation is examined through the biography of the German-speaking intellectual and prominent communist theoretician of the Jewish question Otto Heller (1897–