Life, Death and Sacrifice Women and Family in the Holocaust - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9652294292 ISBN 13: 9789652294296

Publisher: Gefen Publishing House, 2008

Synopsis

The book contains articles by some of the most prominent scholars in the field who tell the stories of women who were humiliated, tortured and murdered; their eternally etched-in-the-memory stories of struggle and survival. This collection of articles is based on two international conferences on women in the Holocaust, held in recent years at Beit Berl Academic College, Beit Theresienstadt, and the Ghetto Fighters House in Israel. The editor, Esther Hertzog, is a daughter of Holocaust survivors, who never spoke about the subject at home. She discovered a feminist perspective on the Holocaust at a conference at Oxford she attended, almost by chance, seven years ago. That experience motivated her to speak with her mother and document their conversations in the article that appears herein.

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About the Author

Esther Hertzog is a social anthropologist. She is Senior Lecturer and head of the Anthropology program at Beit Berl Academic College. Among her publications: Immigrants and Bureaucrats: Ethiopians in an Israeli Absorption Center (Berghahn, 1999); Israel: Local Anthropology (co-editor; Hebrew, Cherikover, 1998; an English edition, Wayne State University Press, forthcoming).She writes an opinion column in the Israeli daily, Ma"ariv. A collection of her articles was published as Op-Ed, Feminist Social Justice in Israel (in Hebrew, Cherikover, 2004).

Review

"...From out of a world of death and destruction, extermination camps, ghettos, starvation and disease, there rises the figure of the woman in the Holocaust... the core of the fascinating studies in this collection. The importance of these research essays is, above all, their historical documentation of situations and events related to women in the Holocaust... "....In the face of imminent death, there was kindness to be seen, self-sacrifice, and the saving of another s life. And from a world that had lost all semblance of humanity came a sense of independence that welled up in the survivors, infusing them with the spirit of life as they emerged from the inferno. 'And what is for me the most moving, the most exciting thing of all, is the ability of those who endured to climb to their feet and shake themselves free of the killing fields, to begin a new life, to start a family...." --Ayala Procaccia, Israel Supreme Court Justice

About this edition

• Publisher: Gefen Publishing House
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 9652294292
• ISBN 13: 9789652294296
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Esther Hertzog