Language:
English
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Feminist Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
16,3 (1990) 579-606
Keywords:
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Jewish women in the Holocaust
Abstract:
Discusses how middle-class Jewish women learned to cope with the increasing burdens of nazification. Outlines the discriminatory measures which restricted Jewish life. Women, who were less assimilated into the German economy and culture than men, but had more direct daily contact with the community - social ostracism, loss of friends, and harassment of their children in school - strongly favored emigration. However, a better employment situation for women in Germany, the greater physical danger for men, and the need for women to stay behind and care for children or elderly parents, resulted in fewer women leaving Germany than men. Traces efforts of the Jewish Women's League (Jüdischer Frauenbund) to alleviate the worsening conditions of the Jews, and to prepare women for emigration.
Note:
Appeared also in "Juden in Deutschland" (1991) 406-434, and in "Different Voices; Women and the Holocaust" (1993) 187-212. Appeared as "Keeping calm and weathering the storm; Jewish women's responses to daily life in Nazi Germany" in "Legacy" 1,3 (1998) 10-17, "Women in the Holocaust" (1998) 39-54, "The Holocaust; Readings & Interpretations" (2001) 387-396, and "Holocaust; Critical Concepts in Historical Studies" I (2004).
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Appeared in German as "Alltagsleben jüdischer Frauen in Deutschland 1933-1938" in "Frauen und Faschismus in Europa" (1990) 137-149 and as "Jüdische Frauen im Nazi-Deutschland 1933-1939" in "Lektüren und Brüche" (1993) 196-214.
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A Hebrew version appeared in "Bishvil ha-Zikaron" 18 (1996).
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