Language:
German
Pages:
454
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typescript.
Year of publication:
1940
Keywords:
Straus, Rachel,
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Jüdischer Frauenbund.
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Zionist Congress, 7th, Basel, 1905.
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Antisemitism.
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Education, Primary 1871-1918.
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Fasts and feasts Judiasm.
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Feminism.
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Gynecologists.
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Jewish families 19th century.
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Orthodox Judaism.
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Physicians Biography.
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Women authors.
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Women Education.
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World War, 1914-1918.
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Germany History 1871-1918.
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Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948.
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Autobiographies
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Biographical sources
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Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoir was written 1940 in Jerusalem. Recollections of Rahel's childhood in Imperial Germany. Her father was born into a family of rabbis in Hungary. He studied at the famous yeshiva of Esriel Hildesheimer in Eisenstadt, where he was ordained as a rabbi. Her mother Ida Goitein, nee Loewenfeld was born in 1848 in Posen. She passed the teacher's exams secretly - a profession very unusual for a woman in her time. Rahel was born as the fourth child of the Goitein family in 1880. Sudden death of her father in 1883. Rahel attended Hebrew school for eight years in addition to her regular schooling and experienced from an early age on the difference between the two worlds. Celebration of Jewish holidays. Journey to Hungary and holidays with the befriended Straus family. In 1893 Rahel was enrolled in the "Maedchen Gymnasium" in Karlsruhe, the first high school for girls in Germany who prepared students for the entry exam at university. Awakening of feminist and Zionist interest. University studies in Heidelberg together with her brother Ernst. In 1900 Rahel Straus was the first female student at the School of Medicine in Heidelberg. Zionist activities in Mannheim. Engagement with Elias Straus. Geneology of her husband's family. Graduation from University in 1905. Wedding of Rahel Goitein and Elias Straus in 1905. Move to Munich. Attendance of the Seventh Zionist Congress in Basel. Difficult beginnings of Zionism in Munich. Relationship with non-Jewish friends. Journey to Egypt and Palestine in 1907. In 1908 Rahel Straus finished her doctorate and started her own gynecological practice. Birth of her first child Isa in 1909. Difficulties in combining her professional and private family life. Activities and speeches in various women organizations. Member of the political activist group fighting for the right of women to vote. Work in Jewish women organizations. Difficulties with her Zionist ambitions in an anti-Zionist environment.
Abstract:
Cooperation and activities with the "Juedische Frauenbund". Birth of her children Hannah (1912) and Peter (1914). Outbreak of World War I. Death of her brother Ernst, who was killed in the battle of Stry. Birth of her fourth child, Gabriele in 1915. Declaration of the German Republic. Spartacus Revolution in Munich in 1918-1919. Anti-Semitism, inflation and unemployment in the aftermath of the war. 1920 birth of a son, Ernst Gabor. Work in the board of the "Juedischer Frauenbund". Publication of her brochure on sexual education. Lectures and speeches. "Deutsche Frauentagung" in Cologne in 1928. Activities in the WIZO. Disrupted harmony within various women's organizations due to the rising National Socialist movement. 1932 wedding of daughter Ina with the Zionist Ignaz Emrich. Severe illness of her husband. Death of her husband Elias Straus. Emigration to Palestine in November 1933.
Abstract:
The following families and individuals are mentioned:
Abstract:
Baeck, Leo, 1873-1956; Bodenheimer, Rosa; Buber, Martin, 1878-1965; Emrich, Ignaz; Goitein family; Hildesheimer, Esriel, 1820-1899; Karminski, Hannah, 1897-1942; Loewenfeld family; Pappenheim, Bertha,1859-1936; Straus family; Straus, Elias, 1878-1933; Szold, Henriette, 1860-1945; Weizmann, Chaim; Zweig, Arnold, 1887-1968.
Abstract:
The following places are mentioned: Aurich; Cologne; Egypt; Eisenstadt; Germany; Heidelberg; Hungary; Italy; Karlsruhe; Munich; Posen.
Note:
Available on microfilm; copies on MF 83(1) & MF 87(28)
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German
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Synopsis in file
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