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Female, Jewish, and educated : the lives of Central European university women / Harriet Pass Freidenreich

Freidenreich, Harriet Pass [Verfasser] [1947-]

Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2002

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 296 pages) : Illustrations, maps

The modern Jewish experience

Includes bibliographical references and index

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

978-0-253-10927-9 ; 0-253-10927-2 ; 0-253-34099-3

AL 32500 AL 40600 MS 3000 MS 3400 NW 8100 NY 1500

 

Mitteleuropa  Jüdin  Akademikerin  Geschichte 

 

Female, Jewish, and Educated presents a collective biography of Jewish women who attended universities in Germany or Austria before the Nazi era. To what extent could middle-class Jewish women in the early decades of the 20th century combine family and careers? What impact did anti-Semitism and gender discrimination have in shaping their personal and professional choices? Harriet Freidenreich analyzes the lives of 460 Central European Jewish university women, focusing on their family backgrounds, universi.