Julian Gumperz

Julian Gumperz ( born May 12, 1898 in New York City, † 1972 in Gaylordsville, Connecticut) was a native of a rich German - American industrialist family sociologist, publicist and translator. He was a member of the Institute for Social Research. He was one of the participants of the Marxist work week.

Life and work

Gumperz studied economics, first at Halle and in 1929 in Frankfurt by Frederick Pollock, who from 1928 to 1930 was there on behalf of the institute. Gumperz doctorate on the situation of North American workers and Pollock was an employee. In 1933 he explored the possibilities of working closed by the Nazis in Frankfurt Institute in the United States and established the first contacts for Columbia University. After the successful 1934 relocation of the Institute to New York he worked ( until 1941 ) as its employees.

He was temporarily Stockbroker Hermann Weil Foundation and then made ​​this successful work of his profession. He published in 1947 together with Johann Rindl Ypsilon as a critique of international communism.

With Karl East and Wieland Herzfelde Gumperz was from 1919 to 1922 the Dadaist Expressionist periodical opponent out. It was the early 1920s, a communist activist, employees of the Red Banner and the Malik -Verlag, whose co-owner, he was in 1921. He translated, inter alia, Agnes Smedley and John Dos Passos. His wife Hede Eisler worked in the Malik bookstore when he met her in early 1923. The first marriage in 1927 was divorced in 1928. In the same year he broke away from the party communism.

Writings

  • About the spiritual localization of Expressionism, Peace, No. 3, 1919.
  • Art, vandalism and the proletariat, An answer to GGL [ Gertrud Alexander ]. The Red Flag, 3, No. 110, June 22, 1920 in Repr. Fähnders / Rector (ed.), Literature in the class struggle, Fischer, 1974, No. 3, pp. 57-60. ( Kunstlump debate, George Grosz against Oskar Kokoschka )
  • The agrarian crisis in the United States. H. Buske, Leipzig 1931 ( = Publications of the Frankfurt Institute for Business Cycle Research, nf, Issue 2 ( 13 Hft d entire row) ).
  • On the Sociology of the American party system. In: Journal of Social Research, Vol 1, Issue 3, 1932, pp. 278-310.
  • With Johann Rindl. As Ypsilon, Pattern for World Revolution, Ziff- Davis, New York, 1947.
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