| Description |
vii, 402 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Role of Gender in the Holocaust /Lenore J. Weitzman and Dalia Ofer -- 1. Gender and the Jewish Family in Modern Europe / Paula E. Hyman -- 2. Keeping Calm and Weathering the Storm: Jewish Women's Responses to Daily Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 /Marion Kaplan -- 3. The Missing 52 Percent: Research on Jewish Women in Interwar Poland and Its Implications for Holocaust Studies / Gershon Bacon --4. Women in the Jewish Labor Bund in Interwar Poland /Daniel Blatman -- 5. Ordinary Women in Nazi Germany: Perpetrators, Victims, Followers, and Bystanders /Gisela Bock -- 6. The Grodno Ghetto and Its Underground: A Personal Narrative / Liza Chapnik -- 7. The Key Game / Ida Fink -- 8. The Status and Plight of Women in the Lodz Ghetto / Michal Unger -- 9. Gender Issues in Diaries and Testimonies of the Ghetto: The Case of Warsaw / Dalia Ofer -- 10. In the Ghetto and in the Resistance: A Personal Narrative / Bronka Klibanski |
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11. Living on the Aryan Side in Poland: Gender, Passing, and the Nature of Resistance / Lenore J. Weitzman -- 12. Women among the Forest Partisans /Nechama Tec -- 13. Women in the French-Jewish Underground: Shield-Bearers of the Resistance? / Renee Poznanski -- 14. Gisi Fleischmann / Yehuda Bauer --15. One Year in the Black Hole of Our Planet Earth: A Personal Narrative / Lidia Rosenfeld Vago -- 16. Women in the Forced-Labor Camps / Felicja Karay -- 17. Women in Theresienstadt and the Family Camp in Birkenau /Ruth Bondy -- 18. Memoirs of Auschwitz Survivors: The Burden of Gender / Myrna Goldenberg -- 19. The Split between Gender and the Holocaust / Joan Ringelheim --20. Gendered Suffering? Women in Holocaust Testimonies / Lawrence L. Langer -- 21. Women in Holocaust Literature: Engendering Trauma Memory / Sara R. Horowitz |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jewish women in the Holocaust.
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| Author |
Ofer, Dalia.
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Weitzman, Lenore J.
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| LC no. |
97046011 |
| ISBN |
0300073542 (cl. : alk. paper) |
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0300080808 (paperbackalk. paper) |
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