The Book and Its Contents
The first edition was cloth-bound and measured 210mm x 140mm, 307 pages, including four monochrome illustrations. (No ISBN)
The book is divided into five chronological Parts:
- 1905-1921
- 1922-1926
- 1926-1927
- 1927-1930
- 1930-1931
Each Part deals with a different phase in the author's life.
The book covers the period from his birth in 1905 in Budapest, the dual capital of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, to 1931, when he joined the Communist Party of Germany. During these first twenty-six years of his life he was, among other things, a member of a Zionist duelling fraternity at the University of Vienna, a worker on a collective farm in Palestine, a street-vendor of lemonade in Haifa, editor of a newspaper in Cairo, foreign correspondent of the biggest Continental news agency in Paris and the Middle East, science editor of a major newspaper in Berlin, and a member of the North Pole expedition of the Graf Zeppelin
The book has three main themes: the historical background, personal adventure and the psychological analysis of his own spiritual development.
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