(1878-1938)
Austrian writer. Born in Vienna, he studied there and in Heidelberg. He converted to Protestantism and believed that Jews should overcome their Jewishness. He was a cabaret performer, and later became an opponent of the Nazis. He committed suicide when the Gestapo came to his apartment in Munich. He published A Cultural History of the Modem Age.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.