
Focuses on the personal life of Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), the Jewish socialist revolutionary. Describes her background in Poland and experience of discrimination against Jews. Mentions her attitude to antisemitism, especially in 1910 when she was attacked by radical nationalist circles in Warsaw who claimed that her Social Democratic Party was run by Jews alien to Polish national feeling (p. 179-181). Luxemburg denied that Jewish suffering had any special significance and claimed that the role of scapegoat was shared by other minorities. In 1918, her major role in the founding of the German Communist Party and the Spartacist uprising also led to antisemitic attacks. She was murdered at the instigation of the military in January 1919.