Rosa Manus (1881-1942) : the international life and legacy of a Jewish Dutch feminist / edited by Myriam Everard and Francisca de Haan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Everard, Myriam, editor.

Haan, Francisca de, 1957- editor.

Series:

Studies in Jewish history and culture ; 1568-5004 v. 51.

Studies in Jewish history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manus, Rosette Suzanne, 1881-1942.

Manus, Rosette Suzanne.

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

International Alliance of Women.

Internationaal Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging--Presidents--Biography.

Internationaal Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging.

Feminism--Netherlands--Biography.

Feminism.

Jewish women--Netherlands--Biography.

Jewish women.

Presidents.

Netherlands--Biography.

Netherlands.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 473 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

Rosa Manus (1881-1942) uncovers the life of Dutch feminist and peace activist Rosa Manus, co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, vice-president of the International Alliance of Women, and founding president of the International Archives for the Women's Movement (IAV) in Amsterdam, revealing its rootedness in Manus's radical secular Jewishness. Because the Nazis looted the IAV (1940) including Manus's large personal archive, and subsequently arrested (1941) and murdered her (1942), Rosa Manus has been almost unknown to later generations. This collective biography offers essays based on new and in-depth research on pictures and documents from her archives, returned to Amsterdam in 2003, as well as other primary sources. It thus restores Manus to the history from which the Nazis attempted to erase her. Contributors include: Margot Badran, Mineke Bosch, Ellen Carol DuBois, Myriam Everard, Karen Garner, Francisca de Haan, Dagmar Wernitznig, and Annika Wilmers.

Contents:

Part 1 Essays

1 Rosa Manus: The Genealogy of a Jewish Dutch Feminist / Myriam Everard Everard, Myriam 25

2 Rosa Manus at the 1915 International Congress of Women in The Hague and Her Involvement in the Early WILPF / Annika Wilmers Wilmers, Annika 59

3 Rosa Manus, Katharina von Kardorff-Ohcimb mid the Bonds of High-Financial Womanhood / Mineke Bosch Bosch, Mineke 88

4 Global Visions: The Women's Disarmament Committee (1931-1939) and the International Politics of Disarmament in the 1930s / Karen Gamer Gamer, Karen 128

5 Trying to Stem the Tide: Rosa Manus's Peace Activism in the 1930s / Ellen Carol DuBois DuBois, Ellen Carol 160

6 Rosa Manus in Cairo, 1935, and Copenhagen, 1939: Encounters with Egyptians / Margot Badran Badran, Margot 184

7 Memory Is Power: Rosa Manus, Rosika Schwimmer and the Struggle about Establishing an International Women's Archive / Dagmar Wernitznig Wernitznig, Dagmar 207

8 Fateful Politics: The Itinerary of Rosa Manns, 1933-1942 / Myriam Everard Everard, Myriam 240

Part 2 Pictures

9.1 Carrie Chapman Cart and Rosa Manus, [London 1909] 302

9.2 Board members of the exhibition "De Vrouw 1813-1913" (Woman 1813-1913), with Carrie Chapman Catt, Amsterdam 1913 304

9.3 Bertha von Suttner at the exhibition "De Vrouw 1813-1913" (Woman 1813-1913), Amsterdam, September 1913 306

9.4 Ex libris of Rosa Manus, 1915-1919 308

9.5 Boardroom at the Dutch Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht (Association for Women's Suffrage) headquarters, Amsterdam 1917-1919 310

9.6 Bertha Lutz and other Brazilian feminists with visitors Carrie Chapman Catt and Rosa Manus, Rio de Janeiro, December 1922 311

9.7 Rosa Manus, Paris 1926 315

9.8 Mary Allen, Helen Tagart, Rosa Manus, Cornelia van Ooy and (most likely) Herman Geurs, Amsterdam 1927 317

9.9 President's gavel of the Amsterdam Branch of the Nederlandsche Vereeniging van Staatsburgeressen (Dutch Association of Women Citizens), 1927 319

9.10 Rosa Manus, Amsterdam 1928 320

9.11 IAW Board in the garden of Woodgate, country house of the Corbett family, 1928 322

9.12 IAW Board at the IAW Jubilee Congress in Berlin, 1939 324

9.13 Rosa Manus, Berlin 1929 326

9.14 Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, Vol. 2 (1898), with a handwritten dedication by Susan B. Anthony to Aletta Jacobs (1904) and an ex libris of Rosa Manus 329

9.15 Rosa Manus signing the petition to the 1932 League of Nations Disarmament Conference 331

9.16 Rosa Manus at her desk in her office at home, Amsterdam, 1935 or after 332

9.17 Rosa Manus knitting in her office at home, Amsterdam, 1935 or after 333

9.18 Margery Corbett Ashby, London [between 1933 and 1935] 336

9.19 IAW Board meeting at the IAV offices, Amsterdam, May 1936 339

9.20 Marthe Boël, Brussels, 1936 or before 340

9.21 Korps Vrouwelijke Vrijwilligers (Women's Voluntary Corps) in front of its headquarters, Amsterdam 1939 342

Part 3 Documents

1 Aletta H. Jacobs and Rosa Manus, "Dear Presidents and Officers," 1 December 1914 347

2 Rosa Manus, "Personal Reminiscences," 1919 349

3 Rosa Manus, "Report of the Presentation of Petitions to the Disarmament Conference, Geneva, February 6, 1932" 352

4 Jo van Ammers-Küller, "Rosa Manus," 1933 359

5 Rosa Manus to Carrie Chapman Catt, Amsterdam, 22 September 1933 383

6 Suat Dervis, interview with Rosa Manus, 9 April 1935 389

7 Rosa Manus to Jane de Iongh, [Amsterdam] 5 November 1935 395

8 Rosa Manus to B.J.A. de Kanter-van Hettinga Tromp, Brussels, 25 August 1936 399

9 Rosa Manus to Rosa Bodenheimer, Amsterdam, 9 February 1937 403

10 Henrietta Polak to Henriette Polak-Schwarz, Ravensbrück, March 1942 409

11 G.C.W van Tets van Goudriaan to Olive A. Colton, Stockbridge, Mass., 23 July 1942 419

12 Christine Bakker-van Bosse to Margery Corbett Ashby, The Hague, 14 May 1945 421

13 Hans van der Meulen, "Third Chapter," in "Rosa Manus. Nazi victim, compiled by dr Hans van der Meulen," [1948] 424.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Rosa Manus (1881-1942)

ISBN:

9789004333178

9004333177

OCLC:

955275240