Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1935-1944.

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Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1935-1944.

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This correspondence concerns a subscription dinner in 1935 and a testimonial dinner in 1944, both to honor Rudolf Rocker. There is no correspondence from Rocker in the file.

2 items (2 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Rocker, Rudolf, 1873-1958

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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 pr...