Metadata : Rocker, Rudolf (1873-1958)
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Queen Mary University of London
- Holding institution (official language):
- Queen Mary University of London
- Postal address:
- Mile End Library, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End RoadLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomE1 4NS
- Web address:
- https://www.library.qmul.ac.uk/
- Email:
- Email: archives@qmul.ac.uk
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Queen Mary University of London
- Holding institution (official language):
- Queen Mary University of London
- Postal address:
- Mile End Library, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End RoadLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomE1 4NS
- Web address:
- https://www.library.qmul.ac.uk/
- Email:
- Email: archives@qmul.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- RR
- Title:
- Rocker, Rudolf (1873-1958)
- Title (official language):
- Rocker, Rudolf (1873-1958)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Rocker, Rudolf , 1873-1958, political activist and author
- Date(s):
- 1940/1960
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 box
- Scope and content:
- Typescript translation with annotations of _Behind Barbed Wire and Bars_, an unpublished work by Rudolf Rocker on his internment during the First World War. Translator unknown, but possibly Joseph Leftwich (1892-1984).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Born in Mainz, 1873; confined to an orphanage in Mainz, 1883; transferred to a reformatory; bookbinder's apprentice; joined the Fachverein für Buchbinder and was inducted into the local German Social Democratic Party (SPD), 1890; became a member of the young left-wing oppositionists, the Jungen, and with them, was expelled from the SPD, 1891; joined the underground movement led by the German anarchist Johann Most; German police discovered that Rocker had been smuggling illegal propaganda into Germany and he escaped into France, 1892; increased anti-anarchist police operations in Paris forced Rocker to return to London, 1895; librarian of the first section of the Communist Workers Educational Union; led East End Jews against sweatshops in the London clothing trade; editor of the Yiddish political journal, the new _Arbeter Fraint_, 1898-1915; helped set up the Jubilee Street Club, 1906; interned as an 'enemy alien', 1914-1918; after a short stay in Holland, settled in Berlin; activist and writer involved in a marginalised syndicalist group; contributed many articles to the _Syndikalist_, 1920s; fled the Nazis and emigrated to New York, 1933; embarked on a final career both as a writer and coast-to-coast lecturer across the USA and Canada, addressing vast audiences on the dangers of racialism and especially of political authoritarianism; died, 1958.Publications: _ Nationalism and Culture_ (1937).
- Access points: persons/families:
- Rocker, Rudolf
- Subject terms:
- Internment
- World War I
- Access, restrictions:
- The Archives are available for access in the Archives Reading Room located on the 2nd Floor of the Mile End Library. Please contact the archives to book an appointment.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://archives-catalogue.library.qmul.ac.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=RR
- Author of the description:
- Compiled by Sarah Drewery. Sources: Oxford DNB.
- Queen Mary, University of London
- Reference number:
- RR
- Title:
- Rocker, Rudolf (1873-1958)
- Title (official language):
- Rocker, Rudolf (1873-1958)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Rocker, Rudolf , 1873-1958, political activist and author
- Date(s):
- 1940/1960
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 box
- Scope and content:
- Typescript translation with annotations of _Behind Barbed Wire and Bars_, an unpublished work by Rudolf Rocker on his internment during the First World War. Translator unknown, but possibly Joseph Leftwich (1892-1984).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Born in Mainz, 1873; confined to an orphanage in Mainz, 1883; transferred to a reformatory; bookbinder's apprentice; joined the Fachverein für Buchbinder and was inducted into the local German Social Democratic Party (SPD), 1890; became a member of the young left-wing oppositionists, the Jungen, and with them, was expelled from the SPD, 1891; joined the underground movement led by the German anarchist Johann Most; German police discovered that Rocker had been smuggling illegal propaganda into Germany and he escaped into France, 1892; increased anti-anarchist police operations in Paris forced Rocker to return to London, 1895; librarian of the first section of the Communist Workers Educational Union; led East End Jews against sweatshops in the London clothing trade; editor of the Yiddish political journal, the new _Arbeter Fraint_, 1898-1915; helped set up the Jubilee Street Club, 1906; interned as an 'enemy alien', 1914-1918; after a short stay in Holland, settled in Berlin; activist and writer involved in a marginalised syndicalist group; contributed many articles to the _Syndikalist_, 1920s; fled the Nazis and emigrated to New York, 1933; embarked on a final career both as a writer and coast-to-coast lecturer across the USA and Canada, addressing vast audiences on the dangers of racialism and especially of political authoritarianism; died, 1958.Publications: _ Nationalism and Culture_ (1937).
- Access points: persons/families:
- Rocker, Rudolf
- Subject terms:
- Internment
- World War I
- Access, restrictions:
- The Archives are available for access in the Archives Reading Room located on the 2nd Floor of the Mile End Library. Please contact the archives to book an appointment.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://archives-catalogue.library.qmul.ac.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=RR
- Author of the description:
- Compiled by Sarah Drewery. Sources: Oxford DNB.
- Queen Mary, University of London
