JUDAIC 386 Chapter 0: Fighting Gloom

• School: U of M
• Department: Judaic Studies
• Course: JUDAIC 386
• Professor: Jeffrey Veidlinger

Document Summary

Fighting gloom, the psychological blow of nazism affected all jews deeply, women added the task of raising their families" spirits to their double burden of employment and housework. b. i. Many women engaged in denial of their immediate hardships by being in temporary frames of security by engaging in practical efforts or even taking solace in additional housework. b. ii. Women could occupy themselves with the details of daily life while studying a language useful for emigration, pushing a reluctant spouse to consider emigration, or filling out the mountains of forms necessary to apply to emigrate. b. iii. In the families that had migrated, women had to adjust their household to a new urban environment of crowded apartments, unskilled jobs, and public constraints: women who stayed in big cities participated in social welfare work within. Jewish communities and women"s organizations to integrate the steady stream of newcomers: women normally saw the danger signals first and urged their husbands to flee germany. d. i.