Women in the Holocaust / edited by Dalia Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ofer, Dalia.

Weitzman, Lenore J.

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish women in the Holocaust.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 402 pages.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1998]

Language Note:

English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

As Jews throughout Europe faced Nazi persecution, Jewish women -- wives, daughters, mothers -- encountered special problems and had particular vulnerabilities. This is the first book of original scholarship devoted to women in the Holocaust. Testimonies of Holocaust survivors and chapters by eminent historians, sociologists, and literary experts shed light on women's lives in the ghettos, the Jewish resistance movement, and the concentration camps. By examining women's unique responses, their incredible resourcefulness, their courage and their suffering, the book enhances our understanding of the experiences of all Jews during the Nazi era.

Contents:

Introduction : the role of gender in the Holocaust / Lenore J. Weitzman and Dalia Ofer. I. Before the war. Gender and the Jewish family in modern Europe / Paula E. Hyman

Keeping calm and weathering the storm : Jewish women's responses to daily life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 / Marion Kaplan

The missing 52 percent : research on Jewish women in interwar Poland and its implications for Holocaust studies / Gershon Bacon

Women in the Jewish Labor Bund in interwar Poland / Daniel Blatman

Ordinary women in Nazi Germany : perpetrators, victims, followers, and bystanders / Gisela Bock. II. Life in the ghettos. The Grodno ghetto and its underground : a personal narrative / Liza Chapnik

The key game / Ida Fink

The status and plight of women in the Lodz ghetto / Michal Unger

Gender issues in diaries and testimonies of the ghetto : the case of Warsaw / Dalia Ofer.

III. Resistance and rescue. In the ghetto and in the resistance : a personal narrative / Bronka Klibanski

Living on the Aryan side in Poland : gender, passing, and the nature of resistance / Lenore J. Weitzman

Women among the forest partisans / Nechama Tec

Women in the French-Jewish underground : shield-bearers of the resistance? / Renée Poznanski

Gisi Fleischmann / Yehuda Bauer. IV. Labor camps and concentration camps. One year in the black hole of our planet Earth : a personal narrative / Lidia Rosenfeld Vago

Women in the forced-labor camps / Felicja Karay

Women in Theresienstadt and the family camp in Birkenau / Ruth Bondy

Memoirs of Auschwitz survivors : the burden of gender / Myrna Goldenberg

The split between gender and the Holocaust / Joan Ringelheim

Gendered suffering? : women in Holocaust testimonies / Lawrence L. Langer

Women in Holocaust literature : engendering trauma memory / Sara R. Horowitz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780585375052

0585375054

Publisher Number:

99984206257

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Restricted for use by site license.