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Postmodern puddles: A method for understanding the presence and meaning of bodily fluids in contemporary culture, and in artistic works of women, African-American, Latino and gay artists of the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties.
No full textThis dissertation is of interest to individuals concerned with contemporary cultural theory, interdisciplinarity, postmodern methodology, art history, literature, women's studies, multicultural and gender theory, censorship issues, and popular culture. Artists whose work are discussed are Andres Serrano, Kiki Smith, Cindy Sherman, Orlan, Toni Morrison, Laura Esquivel, Jewelle Gomez, Gilbert and George, David Wojnarowicz, and selected others from the groups referenced in the titles. In addition to artistic analysis, there are substantial sections on mainstream and countercultural phenomena such as film, television, medical science, politics, trends, fashions and movements.The primary objectives of the dissertation are to document and explain the surfeit and significance of bodily fluids in contemporary culture and the arts in the last two decades. Since bodily fluids are not new in western culture, just newly conceived and significant, a postmodern method involves an examination of multiple frames of meaning that have been recognized through historical production and current postmodern adoption. Part of the dissertation is dedicated to recognizing and discussing the most obvious of those frames: Religion, Science, Politics, and Horror. The exploration of the persistence, combination, fracturing, and transformation of such frames from traditional, to modern, to postmodern usage is an important part of the analysis.By examining and extending the usefulness of Julia Kristeva's principle of abjection, in reference to other groups besides women, and to other frames besides the psychological and feminine, the dissertation methodology seeks commonalities and differences of bodily fluid usage among marginalized groups on new terms. There is also an exploration of the evidence and implications of cultural abjection as a network of fluid release that coincides with, yet marks out marginalized groups as sites of expulsion. The tense dynamic of oppression and liberation that configures the politics of bodily fluids is conceived as posthuman, inaugurating a implosion of western binaries and a radically different mode of conceiving of humanity and politics.Thesis (D.A.)--State University of New York at Albany, 2002.School code: 0668
AHC interview with Henry Burton Gottfried.
No full textHenry Burton Gottfried was born in Vienna in 1919. He went to a trading school, the "Handelsschule Allina", from 1932 until 1934. Then he was educated as an eloctrotechnician at "Gewerbeschule Mollardgasse" from 1935 until 1938. He was also a member of the boyscouts. After the Nazis' rise to power, he was forced to scrub streets and was ordered to clean the bathroom of an SA local. He left Vienna on 12/19/1938 and went to Hamburg (Germany) where he boarded a ship that took him to the USA. He entered the U.S. armed forces on 11/13/1941, and was discharged on 11/10/1945.Austrian Heritage Collectio
[My husband Gerhard Weinberg...].
No full textThis collection consists of brief biographical information for Gerhard Weinberg and Margarete Wilburn.Gerhard Weinberg (1908-1983) was the husband of Margaret Wilburn, née Seligman. An accomplished tennis player, he
escaped Nazi Germany in December 1933 to Milan, Italy. He was interned in the Civitella del Tronto internment camp, where he met the
artist Peter Fingesten. Gerhard Weinberg immigrated to the United States in 1941.Processed for digitizatio
New directions in Jewish American fiction.
No full textIn New Directions in Jewish American Fiction I argue that Jewish American writers have unwittingly performed a social and literary function for American culture not unlike the communal responsibilities entrusted to rabbinic figures during the outset of the Babylonian exile and whose discussions and stories became the Talmud. Previous studies of Jewish American fiction have all but ignored theological and spiritual concerns, tending to group writers based solely on ethnic origins and sociological constructs. In contrast, I propose a new cultural and narratological paradigm based upon traditional textual Jewish civilization and culture, both Biblical and Talmudic. I argue that my paradigm is a central and heretofore unexplored component necessary for understanding and analyzing the condition of Jewish American writers and their fiction within American culture. My theological paradigm confronts Jewish American writers' treatment of the rupture of immigrant acculturation in the first half of the twentieth century, and charts the ways in which theologically based Jewish American writers---for example Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth---in an attempt to retrieve a lost culture and literary legacy, have responded to and represented the Holocaust in their work. Concurrently, I account for the creation of what I term a Neo-Orthodoxy in the work of contemporary Jewish American feminist novelists Rebecca Goldstein and Allegra Goodman. Finally, my project locates a Liturgical Literature , an imaginative literature centrally Jewish in its concerns and characterized by a fresh midrashic mode, in the late twentieth-century work of Cynthia Ozick and Henry Roth.Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2002.School code: 0146
National regeneration in the Diaspora: Zionism, politics and Jewish identity in late Habsburg Galicia, 1883--1907.
No full textThrough a case study of Galician Zionism before the first world war, this thesis seeks to broaden scholarly understanding of Jewish nationalism and identity in the modern period. It does so on two levels. First, it demonstrates the extent to which Jewish nationalism as a movement included not only ideologies interested in resettling the Jews in a sovereign state in Palestine, but also ideologies focused on national achievements in the Diaspora. In Galicia, where national minority rights were legally guaranteed in 1867 (although not to the Jews), the so-called Zionist movement was, from the beginning, far more interested in acquiring national rights in the Habsburg Empire, and, above all, in nurturing a secular national identity. As a result, Galician Zionists were deeply concerned with creating a secular national culture, for which they appropriated traditional Jewish religious concepts and rhetoric. The birth of the Galician Yiddish press in the 1890s, for example, was facilitated by Zionists who sought to transform traditional Jews into Jewish nationalists, without necessarily convincing them of the rightness of the Zionist cause.At the same time, by analyzing Jewish political discourse across the political spectrum, from socialists on the left to the Polonized secular intelligentsia on the right, this study aims to reframe the entire question of Jewish nationalism. It moves away from a narrow view of the Zionist movement, although this does form the core of the dissertation, towards a broader understanding of Jewish nationalism as an identity, which increasing numbers of Jews embraced despite their opposition or simply ambivalence towards the Zionist movement.Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2002.School code: 0262
AHC interview with Frank Eisinger
No full textFranz Felix Eislinger was born in Vienna in 1928. His family, having owned a fish store in Vienna, managed to flee in March 1940 via Holland to New York. Frank Eislinger served in the US Army in Japan from 1946-48, then continued his education in electrical engineering. Working for different companies, he became involved in designing instrumentation for nuclear-power-reactors, military aircraft programs and aerospace programs. He retired in 1993. Watching the TV-series "Roots" in the 1970's, he started to become interested in his own emigration and in the history of the expulsion of Austrian Jews from Nazi-Austria.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Ein Amerikaner : A collection of anecdotes in the life of /
No full textHarry Ettlinger describes his life, first growing up in Germany, then life under Nazi rule, and finally his emigration to America in 1938. Harry Ettlinger recounts his life as a German Jew living in America, with an intimate look at his teenage years in Newark, New Jersey. The memoirs are accompanied with humorous and interesting anecdotes about life, family, his war service, college, his career path, and vacations, as well as photographs.Also included is an original postcard sent by Max and Suse Ettlinger on the day after their arrival in America to her parents, Otto and Emma Oppenheimer; they arrived in the US on December 8, 1941.Harry Ettlinger was born on January 28, 1926, to Max and Suse Ettlinger, in Karlsruhe, Germany
[Ahnenliste Weil].
No full textThis collection contains a family tree tracing members of the Weil family from the early 19th to the early 21st centuries.digitize