No longer ladies and gentlemen : gender and the German-Jewish migration to Mandatory Palestine / Viola Alianov-Rautenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alianov-Rautenberg, Viola, author.

Series:

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews, German--Palestine--History--20th century.

Jews, German.

Sex role--Palestine--History--20th century.

Sex role.

Palestine--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Palestine.

Palestine--Social conditions--20th century.

Palestine--History--1917-1948.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"For the sixty thousand German Jews who escaped Nazi Germany and found refuge in Mandate Palestine between 1933 and 1941, migration meant radical changes: it transformed their professional and cultural lives and confronted them with a new language, climate, and society. Bridging German-Jewish and Israeli history, this book tells the story of German-Jewish migration to Mandate Palestine/Eretz Israel as gender history. It argues that this migration was shaped and structured by gendered policies and ideologies and experienced by men and women in a gendered form - from the decision to immigrate and the anticipation of change, through the outcomes for family life, body, self-image, and sexuality. Immigration led to immediate transformations in allocations of tasks within the family, concepts of masculinity and femininity, and participation in the labor market and domestic life. Through a close examination of archival materials in German, English, and Hebrew, including administrative records, personal documents, newspapers, and oral history interviews conducted by the author, this book follows Jewish migrants along their journeys from Germany and into the workplaces, living rooms, and kitchens of their new homeland, providing a new perspective on everyday life in Mandate Palestine. Viola Alianov-Rautenberg's work illuminates key issues at the intersection of migration studies, German-Jewish studies, and Israeli history, demonstrating how the lens of gender enriches our understanding of social change, power, ethnicity, and nation-building"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Migration, Gender, and Change

1. Liftmenschen in the Levant: Voyage, Arrival, and Absorption

2. We Are the West in the East: Gendered Encounters in Mandatory Palestine

3. Capable Women and Men in Crisis?: German Jews in the Yishuv Labor Market

4. How to Cook in Palestine?: Homemaking in Times of Transition

5. Qualities That the Present Age Demands: Gender and the Immigrant Family

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Series List

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Alianov-Rautenberg, Viola No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen

ISBN:

9781503637238

1503637239