Merchan Hamann, Cesar Augusto; (2002) Life and works of Sammy Gronemann. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

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This thesis deals with the life and works of Sammy Gronemann, German Jewish Zionist lawyer and writer. It seeks to place him in the context of his times and investigate the contribution his various activities made to the diverse communities of which he was a member. He helped lead the nascent Zionist organisation in Germany and went on to play an important role in the World Zionist Organization as founder and president of its court. As a lawyer he had a long and successful career, which he continued in Palestine after 1936. As a writer, starting from Zionist humorous journalism, he produced works in several genres - a novel, essays and plays, some of which are notable for their wit and for the light they shed on the life and thinking of German Jews in the first half of the twentieth century. In the breadth of his activities one may see a reflection of the various elements that made up his identity. For he is not to be seen as a German, or a Jew, or a Zionist, or even as an author, but as a combination of all these elements. After an examination of his life and career, this work moves to an analysis of his most important literary works, beginning in each case with a summary and going on to an analysis of their context and function. The justification for this procedure is the relative unavailability of his works which, with a minor exception, have never been translated into English, and some of which have never been published. Throughout the work new light is thrown on questions pertaining to the history and literature of German Jews. The work aims to serve as a contribution to bringing Gronemann's significance to the attention of students of German Jewish life.

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