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Progress Through Marginalization: Jewish Women at the Forefront of the German Womenâs Movement
Get PDFGerman-Jewish women of the late 19th century found themselves sidelined on three fronts. As women in a traditionally patriarchal German society, German-Jewish women were generally limited to the domestic sphere. As Jews in a patriotic German society, German- Jewish women faced virulent anti-Semitism and Judeo-phobia. And finally, as women in the Jewish community, German-Jewish women were demoted to an inferior status in religious practice. This paper explores the tri-marginalization of Jewish-German women of the Kaiserreich era. Furthermore, this paper argues that tri-marginalization pushed Jewish- German women to the forefront of the German womenâs movement. German-Jewish womenâs tremendous progression, especially as compared to their German female counterparts, arose primarily through their ability to push boundaries from within the confines of their relegated community
Forum: Feminism in German Studies
Full text linkFrom Professor Wallach\u27s contribution entitled Jews and Gender :
To consider Jews and gender within German Studies is to explore the evolution of GermanâJewish Studies with respect to feminist and gender studies. At times this involves looking beyond German Studies to other scholarship in Jewish gender studies, an interdisciplinary subfield in its own right. Over the past few decades, the focus on gender within GermanâJewish Studies has experienced several shifts in line with broader trends: an initial focus on the history of Jewish women and feminist movements gradually expanded to encompass the study of gender identity, masculinity, and sexuality. Historical and literary scholarly approaches now operate alongside and in dialogue with interdisciplinary scholarship in cultural studies, film and visual studies, performance studies, and other fields. [excerpt
German Jewish Women
Get PDFThree women, the eldest dressed in black in the middle, the two younger ones dressed in white on either side. Back: Blank lines, \u27Photo K. Hubl; Karlsbad 1934\u27 and \u277587\u27 stamp.https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/2339/thumbnail.jp
The German Jewish Post-Holocaust Novel: Narrative and a Literary Language for Loss
Get PDFThis dissertation investigates how a constellation of German Jewish post-Holocaust novels confronts the paradox of recovering and recuperating lost stories of Holocaust victims. I analyze how works by Edgar Hilsenrath, Jurek Becker, and Fred Wander reveal a preoccupation with the innumerable stories and testimonies of the individuals who did not survive the Nazi Judeocide to contribute to the archive of experience. These novels gesture toward an epistemological alternative to this loss: they consider possibilities for recovering the unarchivable. These German Jewish authors employ a particular cluster of varied narrative strategies: the dialogic, linguistic and cultural elements of Eastern European Jewish culture, and a literary trope I term the almost lost story, as components of a narrative practice that allows the novels\u27 narrators--and by extension, the readers--to imagine a discursive space for this disnarrated testimony, or anti-archive. This study uncovers the extent to which post-Holocaust German Jewish literature is underpinned by a conception of Ashkenaz that encompasses both German Jewish and Eastern European Jewish culture and thought. My dissertation shows that the problems of trauma, loss, memory, and memorialization in post-1945 German Jewish fiction are above all problems of narrativity
'I am not a German Jew. I am a Jew with a German passport': German-Jewish identification among Jewish Germans and Jewish German Israelis
Full text linkThe aim of this study is to explore the way German-Jews negotiate their
German and Jewish cultural self-identifications. Given that Jewish and
German identities represent both ethnic and national identities, we conceptualize
their construction and reconstruction referring to theories of national
identity. To describe the outcomes of the negotiation processes observed, we
recruit Berryâs acculturation theory. This theory provides a valuable framework
to conceptualize the integration of two cultural self- identifications.
The German-Jewish-Israeli setting is particularly interesting due to the
complex relations between the three social groups emerging in the aftermath
of the Holocaust. To explore the participantsâ German, Jewish and Israeli selfidentifications
and the role of the Holocaust in their construction and reconstruction,
we conducted 18 in-depth interviews. Findings imply that the
Holocaust plays a role in the construction of an integrated German-Jewish
identification. Yet, the Holocaust and its consequences notwithstanding, an
integrated German-Jewish self-identification is possible
Outlandish names on the provincial doors: German Jews in Victorian Bradford and their expression of identities
Get PDFThis paper seeks to integrate the study of the German Jewish minority in the Victorian north of England, Yorkshire in particular, within the wider context of Victorian history and Jewish and migration studies. Its aim is to contribute to English-Jewish social and cultural history by uncovering the complex relationship between German Jewish and Victorian communities in the provinces and how these affected national and religious identity formation in the modern period. The essay analyses international political and social engagements of German Jews in Bradford and the impact of those engagements on their identity. It selectively looks at two prominent German Jewish figures: Jacob Behrens (1806â1889) and Jacob Moser (1839â1922)
MutmaĂungen ĂŒber deutsche Juden: Alte Menschen aus Deutschland im TheresienstĂ€dter Ghetto
Get PDFThis article examines the situation of German Jewish elderly in the Theresienstadt ghetto
Hebrew Poetry Written with a Gothic Script
Get PDFReview of Else Lasker-Schueler\u27s work A Study in German-Jewish Literature
Writings from the Margins: German-Jewish Women Poets from the Bukovina
Get PDFEmerging at the crossroads of heterogeneous languages and cultures, German-Jewish women\u27s poetry from the Bukovina displays the characteristics of its fascinating multilingual contextuality, yet it also bears the stigma of a double marginalization, for its representatives became time and again targets of both anti-Semitic attacks as well as gender discrimination. The present essay explores the untiring struggles of German-Jewish women authors from the Bokovina for acceptance within the Jewish and non-Jewish community. It analyzes their attempts to cope with social barriers, prejudices, and their difficult situation as both women and Jews. The essay also sets their poetry against the background of their multilingual contextuality. It is the Bukovinian biotope, where Ruthenians, Romanians, Germans, Jews, Armenians, Magyars, Poles, Lipovanes, and Hutsuls peacefully coexisted for many centuries, producing a variegated Romanian, Ruthenian, Austro-German, German-Jewish, and Yiddish literature as well as poets who were fluent in several languages
German Jewish Winter Aid Patch
Get PDFCircular cloth shoulder patch with two clasped hands before a light blue Star of David encircled by the name of the organization, âJudische Winterhilfe Berlineâ.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: The Judische Winterhilfe was established in 1935 by the Reichsvertretung to aid unemployed and needy Jews. Jews were excluded from receiving general assistance during winter months by the Nuremberg laws, and thus set up their own organization to help with food, medicine and shelter even as they were pressured to leave Germany. For as long as the organization survived, it proved a model charity, opening soup kitchens, orphanages, etc. from funds provided by means of donations.https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/2306/thumbnail.jp
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