Women and the Holocaust : new perspectives and challenges / Andrea Pető, Louise Hecht, Karolina Krasuska.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Pető, Andrea, editor.

Hecht, Louise, editor.

Krasuska, Karolina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish women in the Holocaust.

Eastern Europe.

Jewish women in the Holocaust--Europe, Eastern.

Physical Description:

268 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Warszawa : Instytut Badań Literackich PAN, 2015.

Summary:

Women and the Holocaust: New Perspectives and Challenges expands the existing scholarship on women and the Holocaust adopting current approaches to gender studies and focusing on the texts and contents from Central and East-Central Europe. The authors complicate earlier approaches by considering the intersections of gender and nation, region, and sexuality. In these essays, the Communist regimes after WWII often provide a productive framework for studying women and the Holocaust. This truly international volume features contributions by established authors, as well as new voices in the field who delve into previously unmapped archives, explore cinematic representations, and digital testimonies.

Contents:

Introduction / Andrea Petö, Louise Hecht, Karolina Krasuska

Framing Knowledge

The Sequential Development of Jewish Women's Coping Strategies (in the Ghettos) During the Holocaust: A New Theoretical Framework / Lenore J. Weitzman and Dalia Ofer

Women's Luxury Items in Concentration Camps / Bożena Karowska

Filling the Blanks

A Missing Voice: Women Survivors of the Strasshof Transports from Hungary to Austria / Eleonore Lappin-Eppel

Holocaust in Women's Lives: Approaching a Slovak Oral History Archive / Monika Vrzgulová

"November Winds Destroyed My Happiness": Gender, Ethnicity, and Geographical Displacement During and After the Shoah / Monika Hanková

Intersection of Erasures in Hungarian Art History: Erzsébet Schaár / Hedvig Turai

Comparing (Con)texts

"Masculine"/"Feminine" in Autobiographical Accounts of the Warsaw Ghetto: Comparative Analysis of the Memoirs of Cywia Lubetkin and Icchak Cukierman / Aleksandra Ubertowska

Gendered Intergenerational Spaces of Holocaust and Communist Traumas in Anca Vlasopolos' Transatlantic Memoir No Return Address / Dana Mihăilescu

From Private to Public Memoirs: Vilna Ghetto Female Prisoners and their Resistance in Documentary and Narrative Films / Gintare Malinauskaite

Gendering the Cultural Memory of the Holocaust: A Comparative Analysis of a Memoir and a Video Testimony by Olga Lengyel / Edit Jeges.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9788364703249

8364703242

OCLC:

914403166

Publisher Number:

99972058060