Rachel Blumenthal
Biographic Data
| ID | 5844489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Blumenthal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Blumenthal |
| SIGNATURE | BLUMENTHAL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5665-0289 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Austria, West Germany, and the Limits of Reparations for Austrian Nazi Victims
Austrians played the same role as Germans in the robbery and murder of Jews in the years 1938 to 1945. After defeat, neither country accepted responsibility for compensating Austrian victims. Under the 1952 Luxembourg Agreement, West Germany paid compensation to any individual who belonged to the sphere of German language and culture. It expressly excluded Austrian Jews. This article traces the complex and protracted negotiations on compensation …
Refugees, Welfare Organizations and Compulsory Labour in Postwar Austria
During the Second World War, Germany employed 13.5 million men, women and children as forced and slave labourers throughout Europe, including on Austrian territory. Compulsory labour in Austria did not end with the Allied occupation. Despite the aspiration to adopt the values of a liberal democracy, the Austrian federal government enacted a statute on compulsory labour (the Arbeitspflichtgesetz) in 1946. This legislation required everyone residin…
Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley, and America’s Psychiatric Republic
This article reveals how Elizabeth Keckley framed American citizenship as a psychiatric rather than political category. In Behind the Scenes (1868), Keckley emblematizes Mary Todd Lincoln's "scandalous" behavior to describe and critique what I call the psychiatric republic: a politico-economic paradigm that paradoxically condemns women as mad, often for expressing the very traits required of men elected to public office, while simultaneously posi…
Canonicity, Genre, and the Politics of Editing
Canonicity, Genre, and the Politics of Editing:How We Read Frederick Douglass Rachel A. Blumenthal (bio) When Frederick Douglass explains in his second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), that his white abolitionist advocates wanted only "facts" from Douglass so that they could "take care of the philosophy," he invites us to re-think the original Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) as in part a product of William Lloyd…
Canonicity, Genre, and the Politics of Editing
Canonicity, Genre, and the Politics of Editing:How We Read Frederick Douglass Rachel A. Blumenthal (bio) When Frederick Douglass explains in his second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), that his white abolitionist advocates wanted only "facts" from Douglass so that they could "take care of the philosophy," he invites us to re-think the original Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) as in part a product of William Lloyd…
Canonicity, Genre, and the Politics of Editing
Canonicity, Genre, and the Politics of Editing:How We Read Frederick Douglass Rachel A. Blumenthal (bio) When Frederick Douglass explains in his second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), that his white abolitionist advocates wanted only "facts" from Douglass so that they could "take care of the philosophy," he invites us to re-think the original Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) as in part a product of William Lloyd…
Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley, and America’s Psychiatric Republic
This article reveals how Elizabeth Keckley framed American citizenship as a psychiatric rather than political category. In Behind the Scenes (1868), Keckley emblematizes Mary Todd Lincoln's "scandalous" behavior to describe and critique what I call the psychiatric republic: a politico-economic paradigm that paradoxically condemns women as mad, often for expressing the very traits required of men elected to public office, while simultaneously posi…
Refugees, Welfare Organizations and Compulsory Labour in Postwar Austria
During the Second World War, Germany employed 13.5 million men, women and children as forced and slave labourers throughout Europe, including on Austrian territory. Compulsory labour in Austria did not end with the Allied occupation. Despite the aspiration to adopt the values of a liberal democracy, the Austrian federal government enacted a statute on compulsory labour (the Arbeitspflichtgesetz) in 1946. This legislation required everyone residin…
Austria, West Germany, and the Limits of Reparations for Austrian Nazi Victims
Austrians played the same role as Germans in the robbery and murder of Jews in the years 1938 to 1945. After defeat, neither country accepted responsibility for compensating Austrian victims. Under the 1952 Luxembourg Agreement, West Germany paid compensation to any individual who belonged to the sphere of German language and culture. It expressly excluded Austrian Jews. This article traces the complex and protracted negotiations on compensation …
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · European history and politics (2 works) · Abolitionism (1 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 works) · Appeal (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Biography (1 works)