Between Sorrow and Strength
Women Refugees of the Nazi Period

This collection of essays that focuses on the women refugees of the Nazi period.

Sibylle Quack (Edited by)

9780521470810, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 July 1995

392 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.74 kg

"Sibylle Quack and the contributors to this volume can be congratulated. Between Sorrow and Strength is an important collection of reports and essays on a subject that most scholars have neglected for too long: women refugees from Nazi Europe....a fascinating collection...." Doris L. Bergen, German Politics and Society

Many refugees of the Nazi period have attracted considerable scholarly attention. Einstein, Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, among others, are all famous examples. In contrast, little is known about the lives of more typical refugees, their everyday lives in exile and emigration, their daily pain, sorrow, and underlying strength. This study shows, for the first time, how refugee women during the Nazi period endured, examining their important role in the survival of their families, and the meaning of exile and emigration for their future lives and careers. Between Sorrow and Strength combines essays by noted scholars in the field with eyewitness reports from contemporaries. It reveals a great deal about the role of women in the history of Jewish, as well as non-Jewish, emigration from Europe during the Nazi era.

Prologue: Jewish women in Nazi Germany before the emigration Marion Kaplan
Part I. A Global Search for Refuge: 1. Jewish women exiled in France after 1933 Rita Thalman
2. Arrival at Camp de Gurs: an eyewitness report Elizabeth Marum Lunau
3. Women émigrés in England Marion Berghahn
4. England: an eyewitness report Susanne Miller
5. Women émigrés in Palestine: an eyewitness report Rachel Cohn
6. Naturally, many things were strange, but I could adapt: women émigrés in the Netherlands Ursula Langkau-Alex
7. Refugee women from Czechoslovakia in Canada: an eyewitness report Wilma Iggers
8. Women in the Shanghai Jewish refugee community David Kranzler
9. Shanghai: an eyewitness report Illo Heppner
10. German-Jewish women in Brazil: autobiography as cultural history Katherine Morris
11. A year in the Brazilian interior: an eyewitness report Eleanor Alexander
Part II. Refuge in the United States: Community and Institutions: 12. Women's role in the German Jewish immigrant community Steven Lowenstein
13. Listen sensitively and act spontaneously - but skillfully: selfhelp: an eyewitness report Gabriele Schiff
14. The National Council of Jewish Women and German-Jewish immigration Linda G. Kuzmack
15. The Genossinnen and the Khaverim: Socialist women from the German-speaking lands and the American Jewish labor movement, 1939–45 Jack Jacobs
Part III. Occupations of Women Emigrés: 16. New women in exile: German women doctors and the emigration Atina Grossmann
17. Women émigré psychologists and psychoanalysis in the United States Mitchell G. Ash
18. Destination social work – émigrés in a women's profession Joachim Wieler
19. Chicken farming: not a dream but a nightmare: an eyewitness report Eva Neisser
20. The occupation of women émigrés: women lawyers in the United States Frank Mecklenburg
21. Fashioning Fortuna's whim: German-speaking women emigrant historians in the United States Catherine Epstein
22. Exile or emigration: social democratic women members of the Reichstag in the United States Christl Wickert
23. Women's voices in American exile Guy Stern and Brigitte V. Sumann
Epilogue: the first sex Peter Gay.

Subject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], General & world history [HBG]