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Book Review: The Modern Jewish Experience

Book Review: The Modern Jewish Experience Book Reviews GENERAL Freidenreich, Harriet Pass. Female, Jewish, and Educated: The Lives of Central European University Women. The Modern Jewish Experience. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. 224, illus., maps, tables. Let me say at the outset that this is a meticulously researched work. Harriet Pass Frei- denreich set herself the task of investigating the lives and careers of university-edu- cated Jewish women in Germany and Austria since about 1880. She studied the family backgrounds, socialization, and the problems—mainly prejudices and social restrictions—with which they were confronted. Where did they stand politically? What fields of study did they choose and why? How did they feel about being women? Where did those who succeeded in emigrat- ing spend their later years, and how did they then make a living? Did they feel at home in their country of refuge, or did they return to Central Europe? Who were their role models? In so far as they had any, they were likely to be male family members, most likely fathers. Freidenreich mentions women who despised their mothers, chiefly for their conventional behavior and for teaching them to thereby earn social approval. Although Freidenreich knows that the degrees of Jewishness are fluid, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press

Book Review: The Modern Jewish Experience

Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 34: 2 – Feb 10, 2009
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Cambridge University Press
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Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 2003
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0067-2378
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10.1017/S0067237800020543
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Book Reviews GENERAL Freidenreich, Harriet Pass. Female, Jewish, and Educated: The Lives of Central European University Women. The Modern Jewish Experience. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. 224, illus., maps, tables. Let me say at the outset that this is a meticulously researched work. Harriet Pass Frei- denreich set herself the task of investigating the lives and careers of university-edu- cated Jewish women in Germany and Austria since about 1880. She studied the family backgrounds, socialization, and the problems—mainly prejudices and social restrictions—with which they were confronted. Where did they stand politically? What fields of study did they choose and why? How did they feel about being women? Where did those who succeeded in emigrat- ing spend their later years, and how did they then make a living? Did they feel at home in their country of refuge, or did they return to Central Europe? Who were their role models? In so far as they had any, they were likely to be male family members, most likely fathers. Freidenreich mentions women who despised their mothers, chiefly for their conventional behavior and for teaching them to thereby earn social approval. Although Freidenreich knows that the degrees of Jewishness are fluid,

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