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Subject(s)

• Pappenheim, Bertha 1859-1936 [Browse]
• Jews—Germany—Biography [Browse]
• Jewish women—Germany—Biography [Browse]
• Women social workers—Germany—Biography [Browse]
• Jewish women authors—Germany—Biography [Browse]
• Pappenheim, Bertha 1859-1936—Religion [Browse]

Series

• Monographs of the Hebrew Union College ; no. 34. [More in this series]
• Monographs of the Hebrew Union College ; no. 34 [More in this series]

Summary note

"In 1953 Freud biographer Ernest Jones revealed that the famous hysteric Anna O. was really Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936), the prolific author, German-Jewish feminist, pioneering social worker, and activist. Elizabeth Loentz directs attention away from the young woman who arguably invented the "talking cure" and back to Pappenheim and her post-Anna O. achievements, especially her writings, which reveal her to be one of the most versatile, productive, influential, and controversial Jewish thinkers and leaders of her time. Pappenheim's oeuvre includes stories, plays, poems, prayers, travel literature, letters, essays, speeches, and aphorisms." "In her first five chapters Loentz examines how Pappenheim engaged, in words and deeds, with the key political, social, and cultural issues concerning German Jewry in the early decades of the twentieth century: the status of the Yiddish language, Zionism, the "conversion epidemic," responses to the plight of Eastern European Jews, and Jewish spirituality. Loentz shows how, in Pappenheim's unique approach to each of these issues, she balanced allegiances to feminism, the Jewish religion, and German culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-304) and index.

Contents

• 1. From Ghetto Jargon to "Women's German": Bertha Pappenheirn and Yiddish
• 2. "Even Palestine is Diaspora and Gelut": Bertha Pappenheim and Zionism
• 3. The "Jewish Mission" and the Jews' Mission: Combating Conversion
• 4. From Brothel to Beth Jacob: Bertha Pappenheim on Eastern European Jewish Women
• 5. From Silent Opposition to Immeasurable Love: Bertha Pappenheim's Spiritual Journey
• 6. Bertha Pappenheim's Biographers
• 7. Freud and Anna O. at Coney Island: Bertha Pappenheim in Art and Fiction.

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ISBN

• 9780878204601 (alk. paper)
• 0878204601 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007019657

OCLC

144570783

RCP

C - S

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