Sexual Barter and Jewish Women’s Efforts to Save their Lives: Accounts from the Righteous Among the Nations Archives*

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katya Gusarov
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
The Status ◽  
Nations Department ◽  
Yad Vashem

Abstract Using the files from the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem, this article explores how Jewish women in German-occupied Eastern Europe used sexual barter with Gentile men, both non-Germans and Germans, to try to survive. It proposes that sexual barter be recognized as an expression of agency. Yet sexual barter has been stigmatized and corresponding testimonies largely excluded from the archives. Indications that sexual barter had been a motivation for saving Jews were not included in submissions for the award of the status of Righteous because the criteria for that honour require that nothing can have been received in return for saving a Jew. This essay seeks to problematize this rule, which misunderstands what it was like to live in hiding for both the rescued and the rescuers.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-97
Author(s):  
Adam Teller
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
The Mediterranean

This chapter provides an overview of the Polish–Lithuanian Jews who were taken captive to be ransomed or sold into slavery. Once captured, these Jewish women and men found themselves trapped in two major international economic systems of the period. The first was the international trade in Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Circassian captives carried out by the Crimean Tatars with the support of the Ottoman Empire. The second economic system was piracy in the Mediterranean. Two major issues are at the heart of the discussion on the fates of these Jewish captives. The first concerns the slave trade itself and how its market conditions shaped the fate of the captured Jews. The second deals with the effort to ransom the Jewish captives from eastern Europe and is focused on the transregional Jewish philanthropic networks that raised huge sums and transported them the long distances to the slave market, examining them in terms of both their form and their function.

Iris Parush. Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press; Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2004. xix, 340 pp.

AJS Review ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 402-404
Author(s):  
Eliyana R. Adler
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Hebrew Literature ◽  
Women Readers ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Canon Formation ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Jewish Society ◽  
European Jewish

Several years ago I had the good fortune to meet Iris Parush, and I asked how she, a scholar of Hebrew literature known best for her interest in canon formation, turned to the topic of women readers in Eastern Europe. She explained that it was her work on the writer and critic David Frischmann that piqued her interest in the topic. The emotional and contradictory rhetoric of this refined thinker led Parush to embark on an enormous and important research project.

scholarly journals The status of antimicrobial resistance of Helicobacter pylori in eastern Europe

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 388-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Boyanova ◽  
A. Mentis ◽  
M. Gubina ◽  
E. Rozynek ◽  
G. Gosciniak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Helicobacter Pylori ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
The Status

scholarly journals MODERNISATION AND AVANT-GARDE IN CENTRAL-EASTERN EUROPE (1918–1939)

Muzealnictwo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 198-202
Author(s):  
Andrzej Szczerski
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The Status ◽  
Independent States ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The One

The establishment of new independent states in Central and Eastern Europe after 1918 not only brought changes in European geopolitical reality, but also initiated many cultural processes, stimulated by the need for modernisation of the region. They aimed at strengthening the identity of individual states based on their civilizational advancement. It was possible thanks to political independence, which many central European nations gained for the first time in their history. Their expected growth was not only to confirm their right of existence, but also of being among the leading states in Europe. Within the Old Continent the central and eastern part of Europe turned out to be a domain of modernisation par excellence. Here its progression, on the one hand, was most awaited, on the other – raised the greatest controversy. Arts and artists had their particular role in this process; it was their mission to spread the new ideas, calling for a change of the status quo. Instead of simply adopting the already existing patterns of modernity they tried, however, to work out their original concepts of reforms, based on an attempt to reconcile modernity with traditional values, which were found worth preserving within individual cultures. These processes were supported by representatives of both the avant-garde and the more moderate modernisation, which resulted in peaceful coexistence of radical programmes and endeavours to find conservative definitions of modernism. “New Europe” in the years 1918–1939 was in favour of modernity, pursuing consistently civilizational advancement, with the good use of tools brought about by the new political reality and, first and foremost, the national independence gained by many states in the aftermath of World War I.

scholarly journals LEGAL DIMENSION OF CHILD MARRIAGES IN TURKEY: COMPARED WITH THE EASTERN EUROPE AND MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 338-354
Author(s):  
Oğuz Polat ◽  
Zeynep Reva
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Early Marriage ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Middle East Countries ◽  
The Status ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Status Of Women

Child marriage is defined as a marriage before the age of 18. In many countries, a significant number of girls still marry before the age of 18. The country governments and international communities are increasingly aware of the negative impacts of child marriages, but the actions to end the practice is still limited. Child marriage threatens particularly girls’ lives and health, and it limits their future prospects. Early marriages are not considered as a "problem" by the majority of the society where as it is a phenomenon that has been existing for long years in our country. It is observed that one of the most important sources of legitimacy of marriage is public accord and these marriages are realized mostly in the framework of this accord. Patriarchal and traditional social structure have unfortunately normalized and legitimized early marriages. It is necessary to hold meetings to create and develop awareness for implementation of Turkish Civil Code, Turkish Penal Code and Law on Protection of Minors. It will be therefore possible to ensure that children, families and people understand what kind of problems and penal responsibilities that early marriage of children constitutes Child marriage is a problem that prevents the exercise of human rights, undermines the status of women and deprive child from their main rights including especially the education. Their marriages are a field that must be struggled with in Turkey targeting social gender equality.

Molodowsky, Kadya (1894–1975)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Legutko
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Female Subjectivity ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Literary Magazines ◽  
Yiddish Literature ◽  
First Lady ◽  
The Holocaust

Known as ‘the first lady of Yiddish literature,’ Kadya Molodowsky published continuously between 1927 and 1974. Molodowsky earned renown as a prolific poet, prose writer, playwright, essayist, and as the co-founder and editor of such Yiddish literary magazines as Svive [Milieu] (one of the first apolitical Yiddish periodicals), and Heym [Home]. Born in Bereza Kartuska, Belarus, Molodowsky made her literary debut after surviving the Kiev Pogrom in 1920. Her first book of poetry, Kheshvendikenekht, featured ‘Froyen-lider’ (‘Women-Poems’), her most famous sequence of poems addressing the modernist struggle between the newly acquired sense of female subjectivity, and the religious and societal constraints imposed on Jewish women. Kheshvendikenekht, along with her other early volumes of poetry, Mayselekh, Dzhike Gas, and Freydke, despairingly evoked the poverty and desperate situation of the Jews in Eastern Europe. Before she emigrated to New York in 1935, she developed poetry for and about children. In 1946 she published a volume of poetry, Der melekhDovidaleynizgeblibn (widely considered her finest work), dealing indirectly yet profoundly with the loss of European Jewry in the Holocaust. Throughout her oeuvre, Molodowsky explored the issues surrounding the reconciliation of the Jewish identity with modernity.

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