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Stolpersteine für Dessau-Rosslau : ein Beitrag zu lokalen Gedenkkultur /
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. [45-46]) and index
Kristallnacht: November 9th, 1938 : The day the Holocaust began for me.
No full textdigitizedHenry Strau
AHC interview with Margit Meissner.
No full textJune 8, 2008When Margit was a baby her family moved from Austria to Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her father was a banker from a religious Jewish family in Bohemia and her mother came from a Viennese family of Jewish origin. Margit knew many languages: Czech, French, English and German, which she spoke with her family. In 1938, at the age of 16, she left Prague for Paris, where her mother joined her in 1939. When the Germans reached Paris, Margit left Paris for the unoccupied zone of France. There, she looked for her mother, who had been sent to a detention camp. Margit eventually found her mother, and the two fled, via Spain and Portugal, to the United States, where they settled in 1941.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Kurt Rubin.
No full text03/20/2008Kurt Rubin was born in Vienna, Austria on April 13, 1920. He came to the United States via Paris, Genoa and Shanghai.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Gerty Graber.
No full textGerty Graber, née Hollinger, was born in Vienna on May 19, 1924. She lived with her parents in the 4th District of Vienna (Belvederegasse), playing sports with Hakoah. In 1939, she escaped with the help of Kindertransport to England, where she joined the British Army. After the war, she immigrated to the USA where she arrived in 1951. She worked as a librarian and eventually settled in Fort Lauderdale, FL.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Jerry Breuer.
No full textJerry Breuer was born on 08/03/1923 in Vienna, Austria where he lived in the 12th District (Schoenbrunner Schloss Strasse) with his parents, Franziska and Arpad Breuer. Jerry Breuer attended elementary school from 1929 to 1932, secondary school from 1933 to 1937, and commercial school in 1938. After the Nazis’ rise to power, Jerry Breuer and his family fled to Montreal, Canada, passing through Brussels; Camp St. Cyprien, France; Saigon, Vietnam; Shanghai; San Francisco; and Vancouver, Canada. Jerry Breuer worked as an executive and retired to Pompano Beach, FL.Austrian Heritage Collectio
A world of difference: Emma Wolf, a Jewish-American writer on the American frontier.
No full text"A World of Difference: Emma Wolf, A Jewish-American Writer on the American Frontier" is the first dissertation to undertake a scholarly inquiry of Wolf's Jewish novels, Other Things Being Equal and Heirs of Yesterday. Emma Wolf (1865--1932) was a Jewish-American literary pioneer who interrogated prevailing models of late nineteenth-century femininity, Judaism, and bifurcated, Jewish-American identity. This study retrieves the fiction of this native Californian from the margins of both Jewish and American literature. At the close of the nineteenth century, nearly all interest in American-Jewish life focused on the Eastern European Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side of New York City. Emma Wolf's fiction imparts a singular glimpse of a Western American enclave of Jewish life. Remarkably, Wolf's Jewish novels resist the prevailing patterns of assimilation espoused by most Jewish writers at the end of the century. Instead of abandoning culture, faith, and family, Wolf embraces Jewish particularity. The preservation of Jewish identity in Wolf's fiction is a consequence of her American birth, her California origins, and her conviction that Jewish difference is as important as American conformity.Other Things Being Equal (1892) scrutinizes the struggle of a young Jewish woman who wants to marry a Christian. In sanctioning intermarriage, the novel abrogates religious precepts and contravenes the customary marital patterns of Jewish women. The implications of intermarriage afford Wolf the opportunity to expand on issues of Jewish affirmation and Jewish difference. In Heirs of Yesterday (1900) Wolf examines divergent responses of Jewish-Americans to anti-Semitism. In order to protect himself from discrimination, Dr. Philip May hides his Jewish birth. Wolf suggests that Jews who are forgetful of their ethnic identity are as misguided as the segment of American society that discriminates against them. This study of Emma Wolf's Jewish novels concludes that we must take a new literary census, one that embraces minority writers, like Emma Wolf, in order to appreciate the pluralism of the American literary canon and the full panoply of the nation's cultural productivity.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2008.School code: 0006
Diaspora and representation: Jewish Argentine, Turkish German, and Chinese American women writers.
No full textDrawing upon the work of Chandra Talpade Mohanty, this dissertation is born of a concern regarding the prevalence of criticism that presents essentializing analyses of work by minority writers; therefore, the primary aim of this research is to complicate readings of immigrant literatures, particularly those of immigrant women. All too often, literary analyses of minority women writers' works offer reductive and, at times, even inaccurate readings of specific immigrant realities. Such literary criticism posits a continuous and universal female immigrant identity as well as an immutable, inescapable immigrant status. Consequently, analyses of their literary works frequently represent their immigrant experiences as those of perpetual victims trapped at the juncture of an absolute cultural divide between static cultures: that of their culture of origin and of their "guest country." Other essentializing readers suggest that, in spite of the immigrant woman's apparent lack of agency, she has felicitous options: after resolving her ethnic conflicts, which include a formulaic critique of the guest country's culture, these critics presume that the immigrant woman achieves a joyful assimilation or, more accurately, a state of felicitous hybridity in which she consciously chooses the best aspects from each discrete culture and finds fortuitous personal resolution.In this project, I explore writing by the Jewish Argentine writers Cecilia Absatz (1943- ) and Nora Glickman (1944- ), the Turkish German writers Seyran Ates (1963- ) and Yade Kara (1965- ), and the Chinese American writers Gish Jen 1955- ) and Sigrid Nunez (1951- ). By examining their works through a non-binary rather than a binary lens, this research complicates the logics of incommensurability and stereotypical facile hybridity that have prevailed in the literary analysis of narratives of immigrant women. The readings offered here avoid such dichotomies as inclusion vs. exclusion, majority vs. minority, oppressor vs. oppressed, or the center vs. periphery/margin/fringe/interstice of nations and endeavors, in order to instead enhance the literary criticism of minority writing, to portray minority women as integral members of the nations that many of them have come to view as their home countries. These women writers, as instigators of change who are capable of refashioning the circumstances of their lives, also fashion narratives that present their own critical perspective on their own situation.Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2008.School code: 0176
Waronker 70
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ethiopia
Waronker 74
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ethiopia