LET ME CONTINUE TO SPEAK THE TRUTH: BERTHA PAPPENHEIM AS AUTHOR AND ACTIVIST
Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College Press, 2007. Item #38075
First edition. Original purple boards. 8vo. 313 pages; 23 cm. Includes full page black-and-white portrait of Bertha Pappenheim. Divided into 7 chapters with titles such as “From Ghetto Jargon to “Women’s German”: Bertha Pappenheim and Yiddish, ” “From Brothel to Beth Jacob: Bertha Pappenheim on Eastern European Jewish Women, ” and “Freud and Anna O. At Coney Island: Bertha Pappenheim in Art and Fiction. ” Bertha Pappenheim “was an Austrian-Jewish feminist, a social pioneer, and the founder of the Jewish Women’s Association (Jüdischer Frauenbund) . Under the pseudonym Anna O. , she was also one of Josef Breuer’s best documented patients because of Freud’s writing on Breuer’s case” (Wikipedia, 2016) . “Pappenheim, like the majority of German Jews, had mixed feelings about the Jews she sought to help. In general, German Jews shared the prejudices of Germans and other Western Europeans against Eastern Europeans in general and Eastern European Jews in particular, regarding them as culturally inferior, primitive, lazy, and dirty. The views of German Jews, however, were more complex. Despite their antipathy, they also identified with the Eastern Jews. ” No. 34 in the Series: Monographs of the Hebrew Union College. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish Woman, German Jews, Women Social Workers, Feminism, Biography. Ex-library stamps, stickers, and bar code. Minimal pencil markings that do not affect text. Very good + condition. (WOMEN-6-1).
Price: $100.00