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Jewish women in modern Eastern and East Central Europe
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- Creator
- Elissa Bemporad, Glenn Dynner, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2022]
- ©2022
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (246 pages)
- ISBNs
- 3031194632, 9783031194634, 9783031194627, 9783031194641, 9783031194658
- Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Jewish Women in Modern Eastern and East Central Europe -- Marginality without Bene ts: Converting Jewish Women in Lithuanian Guberniyas -- Abstract -- Tentative Evaluations: Female Conversions in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- Part of Modernity: Conversions in the Late Imperial Period -- Conversion as `Emigration' -- From Anna Kluger to Sarah Schenirer: Women's Education in Kraków and Its Discontents -- Abstract -- The Galician Jewish Press and `The Question of Our Daughters' -- Anna Kluger and Her Struggle for Higher Education -- The Kluger Case in the Local Court in Kraków -- The Kluger Case in the Supreme Court in Vienna -- The Repercussions of the Kluger Case -- Postscript: The Bais Yaakov Kraków Model -- `To Write? What's This Torture For?' Bronia Baum's Manuscripts as Testimony to the Formation of a Writer, Activist, and Journalist -- Abstract -- Breyndl (Bronia) Baum-A Life -- Bronia Baum's Literary Works -- Priority: Education -- The Role of World War I and Its Consequences in the Formation of Bronia Baum's Worldview and Attitudes -- Religion and Tradition -- Feminist Tropes, Attitude toward Men, Relations with Women -- New Rachels-Neo-Orthodox Women Poets -- The Compulsion to Write and Its Origin -- Summary -- Translated from Polish by Barbara Krawcowicz -- Humanitarian Encounters: Charity and Gender in Post-World War I Jewish Budapest -- Abstract -- Crossing the Line: Violence against Jewish Women and the New Model of Antisemitism in Poland in the 1930s -- Abstract -- Invisible Female Victims -- Women Blocked and Removed from Lecture Halls -- Ghetto Benches -- Responses to Violence against Female Jewish Students -- Conclusions -- Gender Violence: The 1917-1922 Ukrainian Pogroms and the Challenges of Modernity -- Abstract
- Predators and Prey: Secular Education and Interpretations of Gender Violence -- The Toiling Froy and the Speculating Yidene: Discourses of Female Productivization in the Soviet Shtetl -- Abstract -- The `Shtetl Problem' and the Female Question -- Documenting the `Female Economy' of the Soviet Shtetl -- The Toiling froy and the Speculating yidene during the First Five-Year Plan -- Women's Labor, Jewish Demography: Production and Reproduction in the Shtetl -- `To Speak for Those Who Cannot': Masha Rol'nikaite on the Holocaust and Sexual Violence in German-Occupied Soviet Territories -- Abstract -- Masha Rol'nikaite, Who Had to Tell -- Three Encounters: Sexual Violence in Occupied Lithuania -- Get Used to the Light: Shattered Families and the Aftermath of the Holocaust -- Long Silence: Survival in Concentration Camps, Remembered -- Conclusion