Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Culture and History
Angaben zur Quelle:
21,1 (2020) 24-41
Keywords:
Gender identity
;
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Jewish men Violence against
;
Masculinity
;
Nazi concentration camps
Abstract:
Incorporating space methodology and combining it with gender studies, this article looks at how German-Jewish men, in a space-specific environment, prewar Nazi concentration camps, came to adjust their understandings and practices of masculinity. The paper argues that performing pre-learned forms of military masculinity inside the camps vis-à-vis Nazi personnel, while simultaneously maintaining conventional gender norms in their letter exchanges to their families and spouses in the outside world, were of fundamental importance. Jewish men’s ability to adjust their practice of masculinity represented a defiant attempt of survival and control over their lives under an increasingly oppressive regime.
DOI:
10.1080/1462169X.2020.1710038
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