The German Revolution of 1918/19 had an ambivalent outcome: During the years of war, many German-Jewish soldiers had striven to prove their loyalty to the nation, yet anti-Semitism, far from disappearing, intensified over the course of the war. The essay also traces their hopes for a better future stemming from the preceding century of emancipation and discusses their projects and efforts to build a different German society after the cataclysmic war. It introduces leading German-Jewish actors who, while advocating a radical socialist transformation of German society, represented a minority position. However, they were particularly present in public perception. The essay also traces their hopes for a better future stemming from the preceding century of emancipation and discusses the projects they engaged in in their efforts to build a different German society after the cataclysmic war.