Writing Lives
A Female German Jewish Perspective on the Early Twentieth Century
Summary
the growth of the far right, and the rise to power of the National Socialists in the 1930s. Rather than focusing on one period, this book examines the full range of Krämer’s writings to uncover continuities and changes over her lifetime.
The book explores the following questions: how did Krämer understand herself and her role in light of her German Jewish identity? How did she challenge societal expectations for women and what limits did she perceive? How did she respond to the violence facing German Jews during this time? This important contribution to the scholarship reveals a fresh perspective on this tumultuous time in German history.
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Who Was Clementine Krämer? Context and Concepts
- Chapter 2 Encounters with Eastern European Jewish Women
- Chapter 3 Contested Spaces
- Chapter 4 Motherhood and Education
- Chapter 5 The First World War
- Chapter 6 Legacies of War
- Chapter 7 Fragmentation: The Third Reich
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series index
Corinne Painter
Writing Lives
A Female German Jewish
Perspective on
the Early Twentieth Century
Peter Lang
Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • New York • Wien
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ISSN 1094-6233
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Corinne Painter completed her PhD in the German Department at the University of Leeds. She is presently working on women’s life writing and the German Revolution of 1918/1919.
About the book
This book introduces the works of a German Jewish female author and provides a detailed analysis of the early twentieth century as she witnessed it. Although a prolific writer and leader in the women’s movement, Clementine Krämer (1873–1942) is relatively unknown today. Krämer’s life and works offer a fascinating insight into a challenging period for this community, as she experienced at first hand moments of enormous significance for Germany’s history: the First World War, the German Revolution of 1918, the polarisation of German political life and the growth of the far right, and the rise to power of the National Socialists in the 1930s. Rather than focusing on one period, this book examines the full range of Krämer’s writings to uncover continuities and changes over her lifetime.
The book explores the following questions: how did Krämer understand herself and her role in light of her German Jewish identity? How did she challenge societal expectations for women and what limits did she perceive? How did she respond to the violence facing German Jews during this time? This important contribution to the scholarship reveals a fresh perspective on this tumultuous time in German history.
This eBook can be cited
This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.
Contents
Who Was Clementine Krämer? Context and Concepts
Encounters with Eastern European Jewish Women
Fragmentation: The Third Reich←vii | viii→
Index←viii | ix→
The publication of this book was made possible thanks to financial support from the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds. I would like to thank the following people for their help with proofreading and discussing ideas: Jo Gilbert, Benjamin Painter, Luke Postlethwaite and Hilary Potter. I am also very grateful to my PhD supervisors, Ingrid Sharp and Stuart Taberner, and my examiners, Matthew Stibbe and Alison Fell, for all of their support and guidance.←ix | x→ ←x | 1→
Details
- Pages
- X, 168
- Publication Year
- 2019
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781788741569
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781788741576
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781788741583
- ISBN (Softcover)
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- DOI
- 10.3726/b13067
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2019 (July)
- Keywords
- German Jewish history Women's writing Corinne Painter Writing Lives Twentieth century Germany 1900-1945
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- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2019. X, 168 pp.
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