Divided Lives
The Untold Stories of Jewish-Christian Women in Nazi Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16539252 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caroline Schaumann (corresponding author), Cynthia Crane |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 196 |
| Publication date | 2003-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | German Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-7952 • E-ISSN: 2164-8646 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1432954 |
| OpenAlex | W2801467043 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel praises Crane's decision to quote at length from interviews she conducted with Jewish-Christian women who lived through the Nazi era.Wiesel says (apparently in a letter to Crane), "I believe in personal testimonies as you do--they have no equal in their weight of truth and memory."For historians such as myself, however, the extensive use of personal narratives signals a missed opportunity for deeper analysis and interpretive insights.Although "the truth" may always be elusive, historians tend to believe that they can get closer to it by questioning and analyzing their sources than they can by simply publishing primary documents or transcribing interviews verbatim.The recovery of lost voices is important and makes fascinating reading, but the analysis of these voices is a necessary and productive second step.Crane, to be fair, was not trained as a historian--she is an English professor at the University of Cincinnati--and Divided Lives consists of more than published interviews with Jewish-Christian women.Her book is divided into three parts; the first two, "The Spirit" and "The Law" are relatively brief--forty pages all told.Crane introduces the reader to the subject matter with autobiographical information that explains her personal interest in the topic of Jewish-Christian women in twentieth-century Germany.Her grandmother, an
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · German · Judaism · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Sociology · European history and politics · Gender Studies · German History and Society · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2013 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |