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218. My translation, with apologies to Neruda and my readers.
219. Cinna Lomnitz, “Mi vida,” unpublished ms. (1987).
220. Ibid.
221. Alfred Brehm, Brehms Tierleben (1863–69) (Berlin: Safari-Verlag, 1950 [1863]).
222. Cinna Lomnitz to Claudio Lomnitz, October 18, 2009.
223. Bronislawa Aronsfrau Lomnitz, “Autobiographie,” unpublished ms., in English (c. 1963), Barbara Lomnitz Collection.
224. Cinna Lomnitz to Claudio Lomnitz, October 20, 2009.
225. Robert G. Waite, Vanguard of Nazism: The Free Corps Movement in Post-War Germany, 1918–1923 (New York: Norton, 1952), 214.
226. The source for this Wikipedia entry is Martin Sabrow, Der Rathenaumord. Rekonstruktion einer Verschworun gegen die Republik von Weimar (Munich: Oldenbourg, 1994).
227. Ernst von Salomon, Fragebogen, trans. Constantine Fitzgibbon (New York: Doubleday, 1955), 56.
228. Quoted in Martin Sabrow to Claudio Lomnitz, October 31, 2017.
229. Salomon, Fragebogen.
230. Bronislawa Aronsfrau Lomnitz, “Autobiographie.”
231. Ibid.
232. Karen Strobel with the cooperation of Brigitte Zwerger, “From Hatred to Violence: The Early Völkish Movement and NSDAP until 1922 in Mannheim,” unpublished ms. (2020).
233. Paul Lerner, The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880–1940 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015).
234. Bronislawa Aronsfrau Lomnitz, “Autobiographie.”
235. See Vinkash Pandey and Sverre Holm, “Linking the Fractional Derivative and the Lomnitz Creep Law to Non-Newtonian Time-Varying Viscosity,” Physical Review E94, 032606 (2016).
236. Cinna Lomnitz, “Mi vida.”
237. Ibid., cuaderno 1, 12–13.
238. Ibid., 16–17.
239. Ibid., 17.
240. Ibid., 13.
241. Frankfürter Zeitung, May 25, 1922, cited in Sabrow, Der Rathenaumord, note 26. Translation by Stephan Rinke.
242. Quoted in Waite, Vanguard of Nazism.
243. Larissa Adler to Claudio Lomnitz, February 6, 2016.
Illustration Credits
1, 2: Collection of Marie-Louise Hekel.
3: Photograph by Enrique Quispe Cueva.
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 (top), 16 (left), 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 (bottom), 29, 30: Collection of Manuel Adler.
31: From Atlas of the Holocaust, ed. Sir Martin Gilbert, in Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories (New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1999).
32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 (top), 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54: Collection of Larissa Adler.
55: From Diana Dumitru, The State, Anti-Semitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 64. Reproduced from Wikimedia Commons.
56: From María Leal Villamizar, “Columbia frente al antisemitismo y la inmigración de judíos polacos y alemanes 1933–1948,” master’s thesis, Department of History, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2011).
57: Collection of Victor Perlman.
58: Reproduction of a nineteenth-century photograph, Biblioteca Nacional del Perú, Archivo Courret. Reproduced from Wikimedia Commons.
59 (left): Reproduction of a 1920 photograph, Centro de Estudios Histórico Militares del Perú. Reproduced from Wikimedia Commons.
60 (right): Reproduction of a photograph by Harris & Ewing, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection.
61: From Mariátegui total.
62, 63 (bottom): From Jorge del Prado Chávez, En los años cumbres de Mariátegui (Lima: Unidad, 1983).
64: Repertorio Hebreo 1:26.
65: Repertorio Hebreo 1:30.
66: From Halliburton, New Worlds to Conquer (1929).
67: Collection of Tania Lomnitz. Photograph by Emiliano Landa.
68 (right): Courtesy of Cristóbal Aljovín and Juan Carlos Lupú.
69: Grancolombia 1, no. 1 (July 23, 1947): 1.
70, 71, 72, 73, 74 (left): Collection of Rita Grossman.
75: Courtesy of Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal.
76: Anacleto, December 4, 1938, in María Leal Villamizar, “Columbia frente al antisemitismo y la inmigración de judíos polacos y alemanes 1933–1948,” master’s thesis, Department of History, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2011).
77: El Tiempo, December 2, 1942, 1.
78 (right): Courtesy of Roberto Esquenazi.
79: From Dumitru, State, Anti-Semitism, and Collaboration, 134.
80: Grancolombia 1, no. 1 (July, 1947): 15.
81: Grancolombia 1, no. 1 (July 25, 1947): 10.
82: Courtesy of Professor Martin Sabrow.
83, 84: Collection of Barbara Lomnitz.
85: Courtesy of Mannheim City Archives.
86, 87: Courtesy of Karen Strobel.
88: Courtesy of Karen Strobel and Mannheim City Archives.
89: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/83930-Phanaeus.
90: Collection of Mauricio Adler.
CLAUDIO LOMNITZ is an anthropologist, historian, and critic who works broadly on Latin American culture and politics. He is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Lomnitz’s books include Death and the Idea of Mexico and The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón, among many others. As a regular columnist for the Mexico City paper La Jornada and an award-winning dramaturgist, he is committed to bringing historical and anthropological understanding into public debate.
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