Format:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 296 p., [10] leaves of plates)
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ill., maps
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cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0253340993
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, universi
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-280) and index
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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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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253340993
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Female, Jewish, and Educated : The Lives of Central European University Women
Language:
English
