UID:
edocfu_9959234435202883
Format:
1 online resource (326 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-06280-8
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9780253109272
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9786612062803
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0-253-10927-2
Series Statement:
Modern Jewish experience
Content:
Female, Jewish, and Educated presents a collective biography of Jewish women who attended universities in Germany or Austria before the Nazi era. To what extent could middle-class Jewish women in the early decades of the 20th century combine family and careers? What impact did anti-Semitism and gender discrimination have in shaping their personal and professional choices? Harriet Freidenreich analyzes the lives of 460 Central European Jewish university women, focusing on their family backgrounds, unive
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; List of Maps; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Finding Our Mothers, Finding Ourselves; Note on Women's Names; ONE Emancipation through Higher Education; TWO Dutiful Daughters, Rebels, and Dreamers: Shaping the Jewish University Woman; THREE University Years: Jewish Women and German Academia; FOUR Professional Quest and Career Options; Illustrations; FIVE The Marriage Plot: Career versus Family?; SIX Jews, Feminists, and Socialists: Personal Identity and Political Involvement; SEVEN Interrupted Lives: Persecution and Emigration; EIGHT Reconstructing Lives and Careers
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Epilogue: The LegacyGlossary and Abbreviations; Appendix: Tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-34099-3
Language:
English
