Description
Book SynopsisBrings together a variety of essays demonstrating the breadth of contributions that feminist theory and gender analysis make to the study of the Holocaust
Trade Review"The book's contributions come from a formidable, impressive, and multigenerational group of Holocaust scholars. With its interdisciplinarity and international perspectives, Different Horrors, Same Hell will make important contributions to Holocaust studies and, in particular, to scholarship about women and gender in that context." John K. Roth, Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College "The voices vary widely, from the mystical to the strident, from the autobiographical to the scholarly. Such diversity provides texture to the anthology and makes the reading experience layered and multifaceted. These essays break new ground in format and/or subject matter, bringing gendered analysis to new levels of nuance and insight." Dr Elizabeth Baer, author of The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post- Holocaust Fiction
Table of ContentsForeword by Elizabeth Minnich
Introduction
Myrna Goldenberg and Amy H. Shapiro
Part I. History of Feminist Theory and Gender: Analysis of the Holocaust
1 What Do Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Contribute to Understanding the Holocaust?
Doris L. Bergen
2 Philosophy in the Feminine and the Holocaust Witness: Hannah Arendt and Sarah Kofman 38
Dorota Glowacka
3 Simone Weil: A French-Jewish Intellectual Journey in the 1930s and 1940s
Rochelle L. Millen
4 Patriarchy, Objectification, and Violence against Women in Schindler’s List and Angry Harvest
Amy H. Shapiro
5 Sex-Based Violence and the Politics and Ethics of Survival
Myrna Goldenberg
Part II . Practice of Feminist Theory and Gender: Analysis of the Holocaust
6 From Pulp to Palimpsest: Witnessing and Re-Imagining through the Arts
Björn Krondorfer in collaboration with Karen Baldner
7 The Nazi Assault on the Jewish Soul through the Murder of the Jewish Mother
David Patterson
8 Wiedervereiningung Ersehend: Gender and the Holocaust Fate of the Müller and Gittler Families
Suzanne Brown-Fleming
9 The Kindertransport: Gender and the Rescue of Jewish Children 1938–39
Mary J. Gallant
10 Survivor Mothers and Their Daughters: The Hidden Legacy of the Holocaust
Gaby R. Glassman
11 Talking to Ruth Klüger
Britta Frede-Wenger
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
