- Summary
- "This timely volume brings together an international team of leading scholars to explore the ways that women responded to situations of immense deprivation, need, and victimization under Hitler's dictatorship. Paying acute attention to the differences that gender made, Women Defying Hitler examines the forms of women's defiance, the impact these women had, and the moral and ethical dilemmas they faced. Several essays also address the special problems of the memory and historiography of women's history during World War II, and the book features standpoints of historians as well as the voices of survivors and their descendants. Notably, this book also serves as a guide for human behaviour under extremely difficult conditions. The book is relevant today for challenging discrimination against women and for its nuanced exploration of the conditions minorities face as outspoken protagonists of human rights issues and as resisters of discrimination. From this perspective the voices being empowered in this book are clear examples of the importance of protest by women in forcing a totalitarian regime to pause and reconsider its options for the moment. In revealing so, Women Defying Hitler ultimately foregrounds that women rescuers and resisters were and are of great continuing consequence"-- Provided by publisher.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
© 2021
- Locale
- Germany
Allemagne
- Contents
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Foreword / David Gill
Women defying Hitler: An introduction / Nathan Stoltzfus, Mordecai Paldiel, Judy Baumel-Schwartz
Cumulative radicalization: "Mixed-race" marriages under Hitler and remembrance / Nathan Stoltzfus
Whoever saves one life, saves an entire world: Women rescuers of Jews / Mordecai Paldiel
Resisting obliteration: Learning about the lives and deaths of Jewish women during the Holocaust / Judy Baumel-Schwartz
Defiance and resistance to Nazism from the perspective of gender, class, and generation / Volker Berghahn
Women's protest on Rosenstrasse between commemoration, idealization, and debate / Susanne Heim
Rescue through intervention in the Nazi decision-making process: Protest in Goebbels's Berlin / Chris Osmar, Nathan Stoltzfus
Gariwo's philosophy: Educate to optimism and responsibility through the memory of the righteous / Gabriele Nissim
Women and resistance: New perspectives from Germany and France / Anne Nelson
Jewish women rescuers of Jews / Mordecai Paldiel
Is food protest political?: Women's demonstrations in occupied France / Paula Schwartz
Reflections on Rosenstrasse: With an excerpt from Broken Glass, Broken Lives: A Jewish Girl's Survival Story in Berlin, 1933-1945 by Rita Kuhn / Ruth Wiseman
Mischlinge exposé: Stories of assimilation and conversion / Carolyn Enger
Epilogue / Mordecai Paldiel
Appendix I: Unpublished letter to the editor from Rosenstrasse Survivor.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Stoltzfus, Nathan, editor.
Paldiel, Mordecai, editor.
Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor, 1959- editor.
Confronting the Nazis: Reflections on the Forms and Dilemmas of Resistance (2018 : Columbia University)
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-217) and index.
Foreword / David Gill -- Women defying Hitler: An introduction / Nathan Stoltzfus, Mordecai Paldiel, Judy Baumel-Schwartz -- Cumulative radicalization: "Mixed-race" marriages under Hitler and remembrance / Nathan Stoltzfus -- Whoever saves one life, saves an entire world: Women rescuers of Jews / Mordecai Paldiel -- Resisting obliteration: Learning about the lives and deaths of Jewish women during the Holocaust / Judy Baumel-Schwartz -- Defiance and resistance to Nazism from the perspective of gender, class, and generation / Volker Berghahn -- Women's protest on Rosenstrasse between commemoration, idealization, and debate / Susanne Heim -- Rescue through intervention in the Nazi decision-making process: Protest in Goebbels's Berlin / Chris Osmar, Nathan Stoltzfus -- Gariwo's philosophy: Educate to optimism and responsibility through the memory of the righteous / Gabriele Nissim -- Women and resistance: New perspectives from Germany and France / Anne Nelson -- Jewish women rescuers of Jews / Mordecai Paldiel -- Is food protest political?: Women's demonstrations in occupied France / Paula Schwartz -- Reflections on Rosenstrasse: With an excerpt from Broken Glass, Broken Lives: A Jewish Girl's Survival Story in Berlin, 1933-1945 by Rita Kuhn / Ruth Wiseman -- Mischlinge exposé: Stories of assimilation and conversion / Carolyn Enger -- Epilogue / Mordecai Paldiel -- Appendix I: Unpublished letter to the editor from Rosenstrasse Survivor.
