Frank Wolff
Status and Affiliation
Degree:
- M.A., 2007, University of Cologne (Thesis: Autobiographien Jüdischer Arbeiter aus dem Späten Zarenreich [Jewish Workers’ autobiographies in the late tsardom])
Status, Affiliation:
- PhD Candidate, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, BGHS, Germany (Adviser: Th. Welskopp)
- 2007-2008: Lecturer University of Cologne, Dept. for East European History, Germany
- now: Holding a scholarship, granted by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
- Co-Editor of www.bundism.net
- Co-Editor of versa - Zeitschrift für Politik und Kunst
- Editorial Board International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online
Contact:
- Write Frank Wolff an e-mail
Fields of Bund-Research:
- Workers’ history and political activism
- Violence and self-defense in pogroms
- Migration
- Autobiographies
- Theory of history and historiography
Recent Projects
Neue Welten in der Neuen Welt? Der Allgemeine Jüdische Arbeiterbund im Migrationsprozess, 1897-1950. [engl.: New Worlds in the New World? The General Jewish Labor Bund in the Process of Migration, 1897-1950.]
- Period: 1897-1950.
- Fields: Autobiographies, Migration, Workers’ Perceptions, Transnationalism, Bundist Identity
- Type: Doctoral Dissertation
- Started: 2007
- Based at: Univ. of Bielefeld
- Written language: German
Hirsh Lekert. Person. Deed. Afterlife
In 1902 Hirsh Lekert, a bundist shoemaker, shot at the Vilna governor Von Wahl, injuring him slightly. Shortly after Lekert was sentenced to death and hanged. Later on the previsously unknown Hirsh Lekert became one of the most mentioned and highly romanticized Bundist when authors were refering to action not thought. As a mixture of historical interpretation and the publishing of sources on the case this joint project between Frank Wolff and Gleb J. Albert will aks two central questions: How could a Bundist commiting a terrorist act become a figure that central? How did certain parties and groups in certain temporal and spatial settings deal with (or invent) Hirsh Lekert and his deed?
- Period: 1902-1952
- Fields: Memory, Historical Interpretations, Transnationalism
- Type: Publication Project
- Started: 2009
- Based at: Bielefeld University
- Written language: German or English
Publications
- Historiography on the General Jewish Labor Bund. Traditions, Tendencies and Expectations, in: Medaon, 4 (April 2009). Fulltext