Jakob Moneta Bio-Bibliographical Sketch
Lubitz’ TrotskyanaNet Jakob Moneta Bio-Bibliographical Sketch Contents: Basic biographical data Biographical sketch Selective bibliography Sidelines Basic biographical data Name: Jakob Moneta Other names (by-names, pseud. etc.): A.A. ; Anna Armand ; Jacob Moneta ; Jacob Monetta ; Jakub Moneta ; Jank(e)l ; Sonja Date and place of birth: November 11, 1914, Blasow (Austria-Hungary) Date and place of death: March 3, 2012, Frankfurt a. Main (Germany) Nationality: German Occupations, careers, etc.: Journalist, editor, trade union official, politician Time of activity in Trotskyist movement: from 1948 (lifelong Trotskyist) Biographical sketch Jakob (Jukub) Moneta, a German citizen from Jewish origin, was born on November 11, 1914 in Blasow (Blazowa), a small town in Western Galicia, then a part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, where his father, who had come from Germany some years before, owned a textile factory. In view of militant anti-Semitic pogroms the family left Blasow which after the First World War had become Polish, and settled in Köln (Cologne), Germany, where Jakob Moneta attended primary and secondary school as well as Cheder, a Jewish religious school. At the age of 17 he became a member of the SJV (Sozialistischer Jugendverband, Socialist Youth Fed- eration), the youth organization of the SAPD (Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, Socialist Workers' Party of Germany, a left splinter party between SPD and KPD), engaged in workers' sports and was in contact with left Zionist youth groups and with left dissidents during the last phase of the Weimar Republic. After the Nazis had seized power in Germany and shortly after Jakob had finished secondary school by graduation (1933), the Moneta family in face of rapidly growing militant anti- Semitism had to leave Germany.
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