Research Catalog

Title

Women and the Holocaust : new perspectives and challenges / edited by Andrea Petö, Louise Hecht, Karolina Krasuska.

Publication

Warszawa : Instytut Badań Literackich PAN, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Pető, Andrea
• Hecht, Louise.
• Krasuska, Karolina
• Instytut Badań Literackich (Polska Akademia Nauk)

Description

268 p. : photos; 20 cm.

Summary

Women and the Holocaust: New Perspectives and Challenges expands the existing scholarship on women and the Holocaust adopting current approaches to gender studies and focusing on the texts and contents from Central and East-Central Europe. The authors complicate earlier approaches by considering the intersections of gender and nation, region, and sexuality. In these essays, the Communist regimes after WWII often provide a productive framework for studying women and the Holocaust. This truly international volume features contributions by established authors, as well as new voices in the field who delve into previously unmapped archives, explore cinematic representations, and digital testimonies.

Subject

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Jewish women in the Holocaust

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Andrea Petö, Louise Hecht, Karolina Krasuska -- Framing Knowledge -- The Sequential Development of Jewish Women's Coping Strategies (in the Ghettos) During the Holocaust: A New Theoretical Framework / Lenore J. Weitzman and Dalia Ofer -- Women's Luxury Items in Concentration Camps / Bożena Karowska -- Filling the Blanks -- A Missing Voice: Women Survivors of the Strasshof Transports from Hungary to Austria / Eleonore Lappin-Eppel -- Holocaust in Women's Lives: Approaching a Slovak Oral History Archive / Monika Vrzgulová -- "November Winds Destroyed My Happiness": Gender, Ethnicity, and Geographical Displacement During and After the Shoah / Monika Hanková -- Intersection of Erasures in Hungarian Art History: Erzsébet Schaár / Hedvig Turai -- Comparing (Con)texts -- "Masculine"/"Feminine" in Autobiographical Accounts of the Warsaw Ghetto: Comparative Analysis of the Memoirs of Cywia Lubetkin and Icchak Cukierman / Aleksandra Ubertowska -- Gendered Intergenerational Spaces of Holocaust and Communist Traumas in Anca Vlasopolos' Transatlantic Memoir No Return Address / Dana Mihăilescu -- From Private to Public Memoirs: Vilna Ghetto Female Prisoners and their Resistance in Documentary and Narrative Films / Gintare Malinauskaite -- Gendering the Cultural Memory of the Holocaust: A Comparative Analysis of a Memoir and a Video Testimony by Olga Lengyel / Edit Jeges.

ISBN

9788364703249

OCLC

• 914403166
• SCSB-12642724

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library