Fighter, Worker, and Family Man : German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933–1941 / Sebastian Huebel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huebel, Sebastian, Author.

Series:

German and European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity--Germany--History--20th century.

Gender identity.

Jewish men--Germany--History--20th century.

Jewish men.

Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.

Jews.

Jews--Germany--Identity--History--20th century.

Marginality, Social--Germany--History--20th century.

Marginality, Social.

Masculinity--Germany--History--20th century.

Masculinity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.) : 29 b&w illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

When the Nazis came to power, they used various strategies to expel German Jews from social, cultural, and economic life. Fighter, Worker, and Family Man focuses on the gendered experiences and discrimination that German-Jewish men faced between 1933 and 1941. Sebastian Huebel argues that Jewish men’s gender identities, intersecting with categories of ethnicity, race, class, and age, underwent a profound process of marginalization that destabilized accustomed ways of performing masculinity. At the same time, in their attempts to sustain their conceptions of masculinity these men maintained agency and developed coping strategies that prevented their full-scale emasculation. Huebel draws on a rich archive of diaries, letters, and autobiographies to interpret the experiences of these men, focusing on their roles as soldiers and protectors, professionals and breadwinners, and parents and husbands. Fighter, Worker, and Family Man sheds light on how the Nazis sought to emasculate Jewish men through propaganda, the law, and violence, and how in turn German-Jewish men were able to defy emasculation and adapt – at least temporarily – to their marginalized status as men.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. Unsoldierly Men? German Jews and Military Masculinity

Chapter Two The Question of Race and Sex: Jewish Men and Race Defilement

Chapter Three. Work until the End? Jewish Men and the Question of Employment

Chapter Four. Double Burden? Jewish Men as Husbands and Fathers

Chapter Five. Outside the KZ: Jewish Masculinities and the Rise of Nazi Violence

Chapter Six. Inside the KZ: Jewish Masculinities in Prewar Nazi Concentration Camps

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Image and Photo Credits

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

1-4875-4125-2

OCLC:

1259439429