Full Description
This book is an expression of how the different memories of different gendered experiences affected the Jewish attitudes towards modernity. Focusing on three geographical centers - pre-war and wartime Europe, the United States and Israel, the fifteen articles provide a backdrop to understanding the variation of Jewish life and identity.
Contents
Part 1 Prewar Europe, the Holocaust and the Second World War: woman? youth? Jew? - the search for identity of Jewish young women in interwar Poland, Gershon Bacon; her view through my lens - Cecilia Slepak studies women in the Warsaw ghetto, Dalia Ofer; the forgotten leadership - women leaders of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement at times of crisis, Eli Tzur; family origins and political motivations of Jewish resistance fighters in German-occupied Europe, Ingrid Strobl; gendered perceptions and self-perceptions of memory and revenge - Jewish DPs in occupied postwar Germany as victims, villains and survivors, Atina Grossman; oblivion without guilt - the Holocaust and memories of the Second World War in Finland, Petri J. Raivo; engendered oblivion - commemorating Jewish inmates at the Ravensbrueck memorial 1945-95, Isna Eschebach. Part 2 The United States: "the girl I was" - the construction of memory in fiction by American Jewish women, Sylvia Barack Fishman; the impact of gender on the leading American Zionist organizations, Mira Katzburg-Yungman; post-Holocaust memory - some gendered reflections, Debra Kaufman. Part 3 Zionism, the Yishuv and the state of Israel: girls in the Zionist youth movements in Libya, Rachel Simon; the west in the east - patterns of cultural change as a personal Kibbutz experience, Esther Meir-Glitzenstein; women's names and place(s) - exploring the map of Israel, Shulamit Reinharz; a tale of two monuments, Maoz Azaryabu; time, place, gender and memory - from the perspective of an Israeli psychologist, Amia Lieblich.
