Atina Grossmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1089762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Atina Grossmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Atina |
| FAMILY NAME | Grossmann |
| SIGNATURE | GROSSMANN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cooper Union |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9991-5507 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
I Still Struggle to Ensure that I am Truly Listening: Understanding Gender, Sexuality, and Sexual Violence During the Holocaust. A Conversation
While perspectives on gendered and sexual experiences, practices, and norms during the\nHolocaust have significantly changed in recent decades, questions remain about how to\nunderstand and represent these topics, particularly gender-based and sexual violence. In this\nconversation, six Holocaust scholars, from varied backgrounds representing different\ngenerations, respond to questions posed by the Special Issue editors, Dorota Glowacka and\nReg…
J oanna N ewman . Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945
Joanna Newman begins her densely researched and detail-filled study of Jewish refugees in the British West Indies and the multiple “contextual drivers” (chap. 1) shaping their fate with an unpublished text narrating Manfred Goldfisch’s last-resort escape from Europe. He fled an “ice-bound” Hamburg to a Caribbean island he had never heard of until a shipping agent offered him two tickets on the SS Cordillera, one of many ships—some of them “boats …
Holocaust Studies in Our Age of Catastrophe
Written and revised in stages, from the “BC,” pre-COVID “Age of Trump” era to an uncertain current transitional moment in February 2021, the article considers questions about shifting approaches to research, teaching, and public engagement in Holocaust Studies and the history of National Socialism. It argues that, precisely in order to deepen and focus understanding of the Nazi legacy in the “Age of Trump,” especially among diverse politically at…
Sing This at My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons
David Slucki’s memoir of fathers and sons is simultaneously a still raw highly personal and unfiltered expression of grief at the untimely loss of a ‘larger than life’ father with whom he shared an
Our Courage – Jews in Europe 1945–48
After the Shoah, Jewish survivors actively took control of their destiny. Despite catastrophic and hostile circumstances, they built networks and communities, fought for justice, and documented Nazi crimes. The essays, illustrations, and portraits of people and places contained in this volume are informed by a pan-European perspective. The book accompanies the first special exhibition at the re-opened Jewish Museum in Frankfurt. German edition
Our Courage - Jews in Europe 1945-48
Holocaust and the History of Gender and Sexuality
Historians of sexuality in the Holocaust go where most fear to tread: Lisa Heineman called the intersection ‘doubly unspeakable’. Why is it important to explore the history of sexuality in the Holocaust and what are the methodological, ethical and political issues at stake? In this Forum, five historians of gender, sexuality, Nazism and the Holocaust discuss what the field of Holocaust history gains from integrating sexuality and gender as analyt…
Shadows of War and Holocaust: Jews, German Jews, and the Sixties in the United States, Reflections and Memories
The article reflects on the––muted––“shadows of war and Holocaust” motivating Jewish activists in the civil rights and New Left movements of the “sixties” as well as the women's movement in the 1970s. For children of Jewish refugees from National Socialism, as well as for “red diaper” offspring of American Communists and alienated rebels against the newly comfortable Jewish suburban middle class, participation in these political struggles could s…
Remapping Relief and Rescue: Flight, Displacement, and International Aid for Jewish Refugees during World War II
In this article Grossmann addresses a transnational Holocaust story that has remained marginalized in both historiography and commemoration. The majority of the quarter million Jews who constituted the “saved remnant” (She'erit Hapleta) of eastern European Jewry collected in displaced persons (DP) camps in Allied-occupied Germany, Austria, and Italy survived because they had been “deported to life” from parts of Poland that came under Soviet cont…
Grams, Calories, and Food: Languages of Victimization, Entitlement, and Human Rights in Occupied Germany, 1945–1949
By spring 1945 when the Allied Military Government and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) confronted the masses of refugees and displaced persons gathered in, or streaming toward, occupied Germany in the wake of the Third Reich's defeat, food—its supply, distribution, and, not least, symbolic meaning—had been clearly established as a key political and psychological issue for military and occupation policy. The rhe…
After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe
"After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape the field of post-1945 German history." ---Frank Biess, University of California, San Diego What happened to "race," race thinking, and racial distinctions in Germany, and …
Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany
List of Illustrations ix Preface: Where Is Feldafing?
Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s
This collection of essays offers a novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War. In a shift of perspective, it does not conceive of the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal development but approaches it as an attempt to establish 'normality' upon the lingering memories of experiencing violence on a hitherto unprecedented …
Versions of Home: German Jewish Refugee Papers out of the Closet and into the Archives
Impact of the German-Jewish Experience on Western Culture held at the University of the Negev in Beersheva in March 1998, a conference at Cornell University in March 2001 on Narrative and the Holocaust, and, most directly, a seminar on Archives and the Production of Political Cultures at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in November 2000 at which my husband Frank Mecklenburg, Research Director of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, and I r…
Women and the Holocaust: Four Recent Titles
Double Jeopardy: Gender and the Holocaust, Judith Tydor Baumel (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1998), 320 pp., $52.50. Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination, S. Lillian Kremer (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999), 278 pp., $45.00. Women and the Holocaust: Narrative and Representation, vol. 22 of Studies in the Shoah, Esther Fuchs, ed. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999), 168 pp., $47.00. Facing Fascism and Confronti…
Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950
Gender and Rationalization: Questions about the German/American Comparison
Journal Article Gender and Rationalization: Questions about the German/American Comparison Get access ATINA GROSSMANN ATINA GROSSMANN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 4, Issue 1, Spring 1997, Pages 6–18, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/4.1.6 Published: 01 March 1997
Maternalism and Citizenship in Weimar Germany: The Gendered Politics of Welfare
The three papers collected here present important arguments concerning the gendered context and content of the Weimar welfare state. They unsettle our abilityto judge the origins, the efficacy, and the abstract political value of the welfare state and its democratic claims; they have much to say about twentieth-century women's history and the coordinates of feminist politics in the period between the early 1900s and the 1960s; they have vital les…
Watching Schindler's List: Not the Last Word
Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950
Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920–1950
Reforming Sex reconstructs the complicated history of a movement that has been romanticized as the harbinger of 1960s sexual radicalism and demonized as a precursor to Nazi racial policy, but mostly buried and obscured by Nazi bookburnings and repression. Relying on a broad range of sources--from police reports, films and personal interviews to sex manuals unearthed from library basements and secondhand bookstores--the book analyzes a remarkable …
A Question of Silence: The Rape of German Women by Occupation Soldiers
This statement submitted to the Health Office of Berlin's working-class Neuk6lln district on December 16, 1945, by a woman requesting a medical abortion on grounds of rape by a Soviet soldier, encapsulates the extraordinarily convoluted nature of my topic. I came to it unintentionally, quite unwillingly but irresistibly, through my research on the politics of abortion and birth control in postwar Germany. Finding this affidavit among the 995 case…
"Schindlers Liste" hat nicht das letzte Wort
German Women Doctors from Berlin to New York: Maternity and Modernity in Weimar and in Exile
Feminist Debates about Women and National Socialism
A Question of Silence: The Rape of German Women by Occupation Soldiers
This statement submitted to the Health Office of Berlin's working-class Neuk6lln district on December 16, 1945, by a woman requesting a medical abortion on grounds of rape by a Soviet soldier, encapsulates the extraordinarily convoluted nature of my topic. I came to it unintentionally, quite unwillingly but irresistibly, through my research on the politics of abortion and birth control in postwar Germany. Finding this affidavit among the 995 case…
Feminist Debates about Women and National Socialism
Grams, Calories, and Food: Languages of Victimization, Entitlement, and Human Rights in Occupied Germany, 1945–1949
By spring 1945 when the Allied Military Government and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) confronted the masses of refugees and displaced persons gathered in, or streaming toward, occupied Germany in the wake of the Third Reich's defeat, food—its supply, distribution, and, not least, symbolic meaning—had been clearly established as a key political and psychological issue for military and occupation policy. The rhe…
Remapping Relief and Rescue: Flight, Displacement, and International Aid for Jewish Refugees during World War II
In this article Grossmann addresses a transnational Holocaust story that has remained marginalized in both historiography and commemoration. The majority of the quarter million Jews who constituted the “saved remnant” (She'erit Hapleta) of eastern European Jewry collected in displaced persons (DP) camps in Allied-occupied Germany, Austria, and Italy survived because they had been “deported to life” from parts of Poland that came under Soviet cont…
Maternalism and Citizenship in Weimar Germany: The Gendered Politics of Welfare
The three papers collected here present important arguments concerning the gendered context and content of the Weimar welfare state. They unsettle our abilityto judge the origins, the efficacy, and the abstract political value of the welfare state and its democratic claims; they have much to say about twentieth-century women's history and the coordinates of feminist politics in the period between the early 1900s and the 1960s; they have vital les…
Watching Schindler's List: Not the Last Word
German Women Doctors from Berlin to New York: Maternity and Modernity in Weimar and in Exile
When biology became destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany
This collection of essays analyzes the experience of women in Weimar and Nazi Germany -- the first a period of crisis and polarization between right and left, and the second a period in which the right triumphed. The history documented in this book provides us with a perspective from which to analyze our own time, for in the history of Weimar and Nazi Germany we see the issues surrounding women, family, and reproduction as powerful mobilizing for…
German Women in the Nineteenth Century . John C. Fout
Feminist Debates about Women and National Socialism
German Women Doctors from Berlin to New York: Maternity and Modernity in Weimar and in Exile
Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920–1950
Reforming Sex reconstructs the complicated history of a movement that has been romanticized as the harbinger of 1960s sexual radicalism and demonized as a precursor to Nazi racial policy, but mostly buried and obscured by Nazi bookburnings and repression. Relying on a broad range of sources--from police reports, films and personal interviews to sex manuals unearthed from library basements and secondhand bookstores--the book analyzes a remarkable …
A Question of Silence: The Rape of German Women by Occupation Soldiers
This statement submitted to the Health Office of Berlin's working-class Neuk6lln district on December 16, 1945, by a woman requesting a medical abortion on grounds of rape by a Soviet soldier, encapsulates the extraordinarily convoluted nature of my topic. I came to it unintentionally, quite unwillingly but irresistibly, through my research on the politics of abortion and birth control in postwar Germany. Finding this affidavit among the 995 case…
"Schindlers Liste" hat nicht das letzte Wort
Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950
Gender and Rationalization: Questions about the German/American Comparison
Journal Article Gender and Rationalization: Questions about the German/American Comparison Get access ATINA GROSSMANN ATINA GROSSMANN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 4, Issue 1, Spring 1997, Pages 6–18, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/4.1.6 Published: 01 March 1997
Maternalism and Citizenship in Weimar Germany: The Gendered Politics of Welfare
The three papers collected here present important arguments concerning the gendered context and content of the Weimar welfare state. They unsettle our abilityto judge the origins, the efficacy, and the abstract political value of the welfare state and its democratic claims; they have much to say about twentieth-century women's history and the coordinates of feminist politics in the period between the early 1900s and the 1960s; they have vital les…
Watching Schindler's List: Not the Last Word
Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950
Women and the Holocaust: Four Recent Titles
Double Jeopardy: Gender and the Holocaust, Judith Tydor Baumel (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1998), 320 pp., $52.50. Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination, S. Lillian Kremer (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999), 278 pp., $45.00. Women and the Holocaust: Narrative and Representation, vol. 22 of Studies in the Shoah, Esther Fuchs, ed. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999), 168 pp., $47.00. Facing Fascism and Confronti…
Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s
This collection of essays offers a novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War. In a shift of perspective, it does not conceive of the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal development but approaches it as an attempt to establish 'normality' upon the lingering memories of experiencing violence on a hitherto unprecedented …
Versions of Home: German Jewish Refugee Papers out of the Closet and into the Archives
Impact of the German-Jewish Experience on Western Culture held at the University of the Negev in Beersheva in March 1998, a conference at Cornell University in March 2001 on Narrative and the Holocaust, and, most directly, a seminar on Archives and the Production of Political Cultures at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in November 2000 at which my husband Frank Mecklenburg, Research Director of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, and I r…
Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany
List of Illustrations ix Preface: Where Is Feldafing?
After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe
"After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape the field of post-1945 German history." ---Frank Biess, University of California, San Diego What happened to "race," race thinking, and racial distinctions in Germany, and …
Grams, Calories, and Food: Languages of Victimization, Entitlement, and Human Rights in Occupied Germany, 1945–1949
By spring 1945 when the Allied Military Government and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) confronted the masses of refugees and displaced persons gathered in, or streaming toward, occupied Germany in the wake of the Third Reich's defeat, food—its supply, distribution, and, not least, symbolic meaning—had been clearly established as a key political and psychological issue for military and occupation policy. The rhe…
Remapping Relief and Rescue: Flight, Displacement, and International Aid for Jewish Refugees during World War II
In this article Grossmann addresses a transnational Holocaust story that has remained marginalized in both historiography and commemoration. The majority of the quarter million Jews who constituted the “saved remnant” (She'erit Hapleta) of eastern European Jewry collected in displaced persons (DP) camps in Allied-occupied Germany, Austria, and Italy survived because they had been “deported to life” from parts of Poland that came under Soviet cont…
Shadows of War and Holocaust: Jews, German Jews, and the Sixties in the United States, Reflections and Memories
The article reflects on the––muted––“shadows of war and Holocaust” motivating Jewish activists in the civil rights and New Left movements of the “sixties” as well as the women's movement in the 1970s. For children of Jewish refugees from National Socialism, as well as for “red diaper” offspring of American Communists and alienated rebels against the newly comfortable Jewish suburban middle class, participation in these political struggles could s…
Holocaust and the History of Gender and Sexuality
Historians of sexuality in the Holocaust go where most fear to tread: Lisa Heineman called the intersection ‘doubly unspeakable’. Why is it important to explore the history of sexuality in the Holocaust and what are the methodological, ethical and political issues at stake? In this Forum, five historians of gender, sexuality, Nazism and the Holocaust discuss what the field of Holocaust history gains from integrating sexuality and gender as analyt…
Our Courage – Jews in Europe 1945–48
After the Shoah, Jewish survivors actively took control of their destiny. Despite catastrophic and hostile circumstances, they built networks and communities, fought for justice, and documented Nazi crimes. The essays, illustrations, and portraits of people and places contained in this volume are informed by a pan-European perspective. The book accompanies the first special exhibition at the re-opened Jewish Museum in Frankfurt. German edition
Our Courage - Jews in Europe 1945-48
Holocaust Studies in Our Age of Catastrophe
Written and revised in stages, from the “BC,” pre-COVID “Age of Trump” era to an uncertain current transitional moment in February 2021, the article considers questions about shifting approaches to research, teaching, and public engagement in Holocaust Studies and the history of National Socialism. It argues that, precisely in order to deepen and focus understanding of the Nazi legacy in the “Age of Trump,” especially among diverse politically at…
Sing This at My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons
David Slucki’s memoir of fathers and sons is simultaneously a still raw highly personal and unfiltered expression of grief at the untimely loss of a ‘larger than life’ father with whom he shared an
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