Exile's Trajectory

[Ernst] Toller's grandfather studied the Talmud, but Toller became a leader of the Bavarian Soviet Republic of 1919. His flight from Judaism led him first to ultranationalism and superpatriotism, then to socialism and cosmopolitanism, and finally to his suicide on 22 May 1939.
- Jacob Golomb, "Nietzsche and the Marginal Jews"

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