Jewish intellectual women in Central Europe, 1860-2000
Subtitle: twelve biographical essays
By: edited by Judith Szapor, Andrea Peto, Maura Hametz, and Marina Calloni
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773429338
Subjects: Jewish women; Jews; Intellectual life; Biography; Ethnic relations; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An outsider twice over: Cecile Wohl Pollacsek, salonist of fin-de-siecle Budapest / Judith Szapor; title: Living and writing as a cultural hybrid: the case of Juliane Dery / Agatha Schwartz; title: A pioneer in academia: Elise Richter / Michaela Raggam-Blesch; title: Freedom and resistance against oppression: the legacy of Amelia Rosselli / Marina Calloni; title: Esther Frumkin: bringing the revolution to the Jewish street / Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild; title: Julia Szego: In the shadow of history, a life in music / Daniel A. Lowy and Maria Roth; title: Kathe Leichter: the making of a Jewish intellectual, socialist, and fighter for working women / Eleonore Lappin-Eppel; title: At the crossroads: Martha Hofmann, a Zionist pioneer from Austria / Dieter Hecht; title: A woman against the current: the life paths of Edit Gyomroi (Gelb, Renyi, Gluck, Ujvari, Ludowyk) / Anna Borgos; title: Vera Erlich Stein: odyssey of a Croatian-Jewish intellectual / Andrea Feldman; title: The interstices of life and memory: Alma Morpurgo and the Central European Jewish tradition / Maura Hametz; title: Confronting old structures: Regina Jonas, the first female rabbi / Claudia Prestel.