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<p>The article explores Rosa Luxemburg’s background, youth<br />and family and their influence on her Polish and Jewish<br />identities, as well as on her views on the Polish and Jewish<br />Questions. It examines the views of Luxemburg’s father and<br />grandfather, as well as other relatives, in order to understand<br />the origins of her own ideas about Jewish assimilation, Polish<br />nationalism and other subjects. Addressing the lack<br />of scholarship on this subject by Luxemburg’s biographers,<br />the article uses recent studies, newly available archival<br />material and extensive interviews with members of the<br />Luxemburg family to offer a new interpretation of the origins<br />of Rosa Luxemburg’s Polish-Jewish identity.</p>