Project MUSE®: Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues - Latest Articles
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/907302
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This long-overdue special issue of Nashim analyzes Jewish women's history in post-World War II Eastern and Central Europe, a topic long overlooked by scholarly investigation, owing to overlapping circles of forgetting.1 Addressing this gap in the scholarly literature is all the more timely in the context of the political turmoil occurring in many countries as this special issue goes to press. History can be inspirational: It can show how destroyed and disappearing communities, nationalized educational and cultural infrastructure, collaboration with secret services, betrayal and loss can be told in different ways. All these horrors, loss, destruction, misery and trauma contributed to the formation in east central
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallIntroduction2023-09-24text/htmlen-USIntroduction2023-09-242023TWOProject MUSE®115042024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-24The Invisible Anikó Szenes
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/907303
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It is not enough to be brave; to become a heroine who is remembered, one needs to win the fight against forgetting. According to Saba Mahmood, the definition of agency is "a capacity for action that historically specific relations of subordination enable and create."1 Agency to carry out heroic deeds is only the first step toward winning the fight against forgetting, and agency is not always enough. Being remembered for generations as a brave and original woman is another matter. One might think that Anikó (Hannah) Szenes (1921–1944), celebrated in Israel and internationally for her part in a clandestine parachutists' mission to rescue Hungarian Jewry, her consequent martyr's death, and the writings she left
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallThe Invisible Anikó Szenes2023-09-24text/htmlen-USThe Invisible Anikó Szenes2023-09-242023TWOProject MUSE®1065982024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-24"To a Tanya Lesson in High-Heeled Shoes": Observance, Modernity and Deviance in the Moscow Chabad Community
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/907304
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Inspired by Chava Weissler's argument that the study of women's position in a particular society not only adds to our knowledge about this society but radically changes our understanding of it,1 scholars of Hasidism view attitudes toward women and women's status in various hasidic groups as a litmus test for the attitudes of the community and its leader toward modernity.2 Some modern scholars, including feminist-oriented ones,3 have asserted that women played substantial roles in Hasidism, as devoted wives facilitating their husbands' full-fledged religious lives, as philanthropists subsidizing hasidic courts, high-status ladies of the hasidic nobility, wives and mothers of tzadikim (holy men, i.e., hasidic
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmall"To a Tanya Lesson in High-Heeled Shoes": Observance, Modernity and Deviance in the Moscow Chabad Community2023-09-24text/htmlen-US"To a Tanya Lesson in High-Heeled Shoes": Observance, Modernity and Deviance in the Moscow Chabad Community2023-09-242023TWOProject MUSE®1786632024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-24"I Am a Conscious Jew and an Austrian": Austrian Jewish Women Survivors in Post-Shoah Austria
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/907305
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This paper presents the life stories of six Jewish women who were born in Vienna, survived the Nazi persecution there or in camps, and stayed in Austria after the war. The subjects were chosen in an effort to reflect a diversity of fates, reactions and coping strategies and to offer a representative overview. I will discuss why these women did not leave Austria after the Nazi takeover, how they managed to survive the years of persecution, why they subsequently decided to remain in Austria, and how their sufferings influenced the course of their lives after liberation. As Marion Kaplan has shown for Germany, I argue that gender, class, age and family ties were important reasons for their choices to stay, both before
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmall"I Am a Conscious Jew and an Austrian": Austrian Jewish Women Survivors in Post-Shoah Austria2023-09-24text/htmlen-US"I Am a Conscious Jew and an Austrian": Austrian Jewish Women Survivors in Post-Shoah Austria2023-09-242023TWOProject MUSE®1597342024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-24A Jewish Reclaiming of German-Jewish Women Thinkers
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/907306
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Many years went by before I learned of the existence of many of the key German Jewish woman thinkers of the early twentieth century. The delay was due in part to my socialization as a Jewish woman in post-Shoah Germany. I was aware of Hannah Arendt's work, which was important to my thinking for quite some time, but it often made me feel slightly uneasy, especially her writing on the political role of Jews in European history. This had nothing to do with the theses spurned by so many of her Jewish contemporaries, such as her claim that the Jewish Councils carried partial responsibility for the Shoah, which had caused a scandal upon the publication of Eichmann in Jerusalem. In fact, I agreed with Arendt's repeated
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallA Jewish Reclaiming of German-Jewish Women Thinkers2023-09-24text/htmlen-USA Jewish Reclaiming of German-Jewish Women Thinkers2023-09-242023TWOProject MUSE®543742024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-24Women's Impact on the Development of Israel's Healthcare System: The Contributions of Nurse Ida Wissotzky
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/907307
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I knew the path would be a long and difficult one … [but] I am certain that you will know how to fulfill everything that your sacred profession demands of you in developing this country.Ida Wissotzky is among the women who made important but often overlooked contributions to the development of Israel's healthcare sector in the pre-state and early state years. Apart from her leadership roles in the young country's emergent healthcare system, her career including working with Jewish refugees in British internment camps in Cyprus after the Holocaust, caring for wounded soldiers during and after the 1948 war, and supervising the care of new immigrants in Israel's absorption camps. From the early years of her career
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallWomen's Impact on the Development of Israel's Healthcare System: The Contributions of Nurse Ida Wissotzky2023-09-24text/htmlen-USWomen's Impact on the Development of Israel's Healthcare System: The Contributions of Nurse Ida Wissotzky2023-09-242023TWOProject MUSE®1302712024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-24The Shaping of Military Nursing in Israel: 1947–1958
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/907308
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Military nursing aims to provide medical assistance to the military in war and in routine and humanitarian situations.1 Military nurses care for and stabilize patients from the initial point of injury or illness until they can receive more regular medical care.2 For over 160 years, since the breakthrough of Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War and her contributions to improving the health of soldiers, military nurses have been an integral part of military medical units around the world. Well-trained, dedicated nurses have shown themselves essential to the sound functioning of medical services, near the frontlines, in battlefield hospitals set up behind the front, and in established military hospitals on the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallThe Shaping of Military Nursing in Israel: 1947–19582023-09-24text/htmlen-USThe Shaping of Military Nursing in Israel: 1947–19582023-09-242023TWOProject MUSE®1078012024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-24Life-Tumbled Shards by Heddy Breuer Abramowitz (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/907309
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"The following is based on the journal I wrote after the death of our daughter," writes Heddy Breuer Abramowitz in the opening sentence of her book. "I mostly wrote during the quiet hush in the middle of the night." Her daughter Talia, only in her mid-twenties, newly married and full of love and hope, succumbed to leukemia in 2015. Heddy—whom I happen to know slightly, so I may be excused for referring to her by her first name—is an artist, a thoughtful and intelligent woman, a child of Holocaust survivors, religiously observant and an immigrant to Israel from the United States. A loving mother, she was devastated by her daughter's death.Life-Tumbled Shards, Cover image. © Heddy AbramowitzLife-Tumbled Shards, p.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallLife-Tumbled Shards by Heddy Breuer Abramowitz (review)2023-09-24text/htmlen-USLife-Tumbled Shards by Heddy Breuer Abramowitz (review)2023-09-242023TWOProject MUSE®135072024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-24From the Jewish Provinces: Selected Stories by Fradl Shtok, Jordan D. Finkin and Allison Schachter (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/907310
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This volume initiates two critical conversations. The first is with Fradl Shtok, the author, and her brilliant Yiddish texts, published in New York almost a century ago, launching Shtok's literary career and sealing her literary legacy. The second engagement is with the few texts translated into English two and more decades ago by various translators. Finkin and Schachter translate Shtok in a new way and for a new generation of readers. The present collection presents a significant number of Shtok's stories from Gezamelte ertsehlungen (1919) in a single book, facilitating appraisal of the author's modernist style by twenty-first-century readers.Fradl Shtok (1890–1990?), born in Skala, Galicia, on the border between
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallFrom the Jewish Provinces: Selected Stories by Fradl Shtok, Jordan D. Finkin and Allison Schachter (review)2023-09-24text/htmlen-USFrom the Jewish Provinces: Selected Stories by Fradl Shtok, Jordan D. Finkin and Allison Schachter (review)2023-09-242023TWOProject MUSE®118362024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-24When Rabbis Abuse: Power, Gender, and Status in the Dynamics of Sexual Abuse in Jewish Culture by Elana Sztokman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/907311
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When do rabbis abuse? Potentially, at any given time. What kinds of social structures and cultural tenets unfold on the occasions when rabbis abuse? Ones that facilitate the exploitation of power and the manipulation of otherwise valuable Jewish and human values. In When Rabbis Abuse: Power, Gender, and Status in the Dynamics of Sexual Abuse in Jewish Culture, Elena Sztokman asks these and other important questions, illuminating in a sincere, sensitive and lucid narrative the dynamics of abuse by rabbis, a phenomenon that is both pervasive and overlooked. This is the raison d'etre of Sztokman's book, and also its merit: It is an empirically solid, comprehensive and well-informed account of sexual abuse in Jewish
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallWhen Rabbis Abuse: Power, Gender, and Status in the Dynamics of Sexual Abuse in Jewish Culture by Elana Sztokman (review)2023-09-24text/htmlen-USWhen Rabbis Abuse: Power, Gender, and Status in the Dynamics of Sexual Abuse in Jewish Culture by Elana Sztokman (review)2023-09-242023TWOProject MUSE®107242024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-24Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire ed. by Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Transciatti (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/907312
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In just fifteen minutes on March 25, 1911, a fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City's Greenwich Village killed nearly 150 people, most of them women, most of them young, most of them Jewish or Italian. This entirely preventable tragedy resulted in a public outcry and an uptick in union membership, but not in civil or criminal convictions and not even in better enforcement of the paltry safety regulations on the books, which might have saved at least some lives. In the century since the fire, there has been some attention to it in both the scholarly and the popular press, as well as several novelistic treatments. The fiery speech given by labor leader Rose Schneiderman at a memorial meeting shortly
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallTalking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire ed. by Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Transciatti (review)2023-09-24text/htmlen-USTalking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire ed. by Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Transciatti (review)2023-09-242023TWOProject MUSE®74432024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-24