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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828017703321

Autore

Freidenreich Harriet Pass <1947->

Titolo

Female, Jewish, and educated : the lives of Central European university women / / Harriet Pass Freidenreich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-06280-8

9780253109272

9786612062803

0-253-10927-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Collana

Modern Jewish experience

Disciplina

305.48/8924043/0922

B

Soggetti

Jewish women - Germany

Jewish women - Austria

Jews - Germany

Jews - Austria

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Epilogue: The LegacyGlossary and Abbreviations; Appendix: Tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

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