tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096690447802445485.post3754891206487035896..comments2023-04-18T18:20:36.128+01:00Comments on RADICAL HISTORY NETWORK (RaHN): After Cable Street - Joe Jacobs, 1940-77 - MeetingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096690447802445485.post-76410109370642552132014-11-05T12:16:07.347+00:002014-11-05T12:16:07.347+00:00Readers of Joe Jacobs’ Out of the Ghetto may also ...Readers of Joe Jacobs’ Out of the Ghetto may also like:<br />“Beaten but not Defeated”, by Merilyn Moos<br />Available now (late 2014) as an ebook (@ £6.99), hard copies due out.<br />The biography charts Siegi Moos’s life, starting in Germany when he witnessed the Bavarian uprisings of 1918/19 and the later rise of the extreme right. The book then follows Siegi’s progress in Berlin between 1929-1933 as a committed Communist and an active anti-Nazi in the well-organised Red Front, before much of the German Communist party (KPD) took the Nazis seriously, and his deep involvement in the Free Thinkers and in agit-prop theatre.<br />Siegi escaped Germany in 1933 and, exiled in Britain, left the Communist Party around 1937 and for the rest of his life, sought another route to the transformation of capitalism.<br />The book describes Siegi’s life as an exile: the loss of family, comrades, his first language and the impact of exile on his personal relationships.<br /> <br />Review: "This is a fascinating and often moving account of the life of Siegfried Moos, a German Communist and workers’ theatre activist in the years before Hitler came to power, and later exiled in Britain; it casts valuable new light on the advent of Nazism and the opposition to it. "<br />Ian Birchall, London Socialist Historians Group & author of ‘Sartre Against Stalinism’<br />Radical History Network (RaHN)https://www.blogger.com/profile/12583324130074286354noreply@blogger.com