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Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust - Between Destruction and Construction (Hardcover)
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Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust - Between Destruction and Construction (Hardcover)
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This book explores, for the first time, the impact of the Holocaust
on the gender identities of Jewish men. Drawing on historical and
sociological arguments, it specifically looks at the experiences of
men in France, Holland, Belgium, and Poland. Jewish Masculinity in
the Holocaust starts by examining the gendered environment and
ideas of Jewish masculinity during the interwar period and in the
run-up to the Holocaust. The volume then goes on to explore the
effect of Nazi persecution on various elements of male gender
identity, analysing a wide range of sources including diaries and
journals written at the time, underground ghetto newspapers and
numerous memoirs written in the intervening years by survivors.
Taken together, these sources show that Jewish masculinities were
severely damaged in the initial phases of persecution, particularly
because men were unable to perform the gendered roles they expected
of themselves. More controversially, however, Maddy Carey also
shows that the escalation of the persecution and later enclosure -
whether through ghettoisation or hiding - offered men the
opportunity to reassert their masculine identities. Finally, the
book discusses the impact of the Holocaust on the practice of
fatherhood and considers its effect on the transmission of
masculinity. This important study breaks new ground in its coverage
of gender and masculinities and is an important text for anyone
studying the history of the Holocaust.
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