Seiten:
135 pages (single space) :
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Typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
Erscheinungsjahr:
1959
Schlagwort(e):
Schwarz, Emil.
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Frankl, Paul.
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Bund österreichischer Frauenvereine.
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Neuer Frauenklub (Wien)
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Families 19th century.
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Feminism.
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Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
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Lawyers.
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Physicians.
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Public welfare.
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Socialism.
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Social workers.
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Teachers.
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Voyages and travels.
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Women Employment.
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Women Education.
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Women authors.
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Women Political activity.
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Palestine.
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Prague.
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United States Emigration and immigration 1940.
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Vienna (Austria)
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Autobiographies
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Biographical sources
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Memoirs
Kurzfassung:
The memoir was written 1959 in Chicago. Memories of the author's childhood in an upper middle-class Jewish family in Prague in the 1870s. Her maternal grandfather was a highly esteemed lawyer in the German-Jewish society of Prague. Early awakening of social and feminist interest. Cultural and literary interests. Criticism on women's upbringing in bourgeois society and the taboos and morals of her time. Move to Vienna in 1898. Marriage with the physician Emil Schwarz in 1899. Olly Schwarz participated in the establishing of the "Athenaeum", an association providing higher education for women. She was a founding member of the "Neue Wiener Frauenklub" and inspired the physicist Dr. Olga Steindler to establish the "Handelsakademie", a girl's school for higher education in economy. Olly Schwarz pursued her interest in women's education and established a center for career counseling in female professions. Participation at the International Congress of the World Women's League in Rome. During World War One Olly Schwarz worked as a nurse and was a member of several welfare organizations. Political activities and cooperation with Social Democratic women's organizations. Description of domestic life activities. Several journeys to Russia, India and the Near East. Detailed description of an official visit to Palestine in 1930. Experiences after the Nazi take-over in Austria. Emigration to the United States and difficulties of starting a new life. The couple lived in Chicago, where Emil Schwarz had a position at the institute of hematology at the Michael Reese Hospital. Olly Schwarz was active in the settlement movement and other fields of social work.
Anmerkung:
Available on microfilm
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German and English
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