Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann's exile years in Turkey, 1935-1950

A Biographical and Gendered Approach to Migration History

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ID5145686
AuthorsNazan Maksudyan (0000-0002-0918-7807, Freie Universität Berlin, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Berlin, Germany, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume33
Issue2
Pages223-243
Publication date2024-02-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWomen s History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09612025.2023.2217496
OpenAlexW4378533412
LanguageEN
Citations received2

Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann (1895–1998) and Albert Eckstein (1891–1950), a pediatrician couple from Düsseldorf, had to hand in their official resignations after being declared as ‘Jews’ according to the laws of 1933 and 1935. Albert Eckstein accepted the offer of the Turkish government to become the head of the pediatric clinic of Ankara Hospital. Relying on a biographical approach and utilizing ego-documents, such as memoirs, letters, and travelogues at the Eckstein family archives, together with Turkish state archives, and Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann’s research publications, this paper conceptualizes Erna’s exile years in Turkey along gendered lines and provides an intersectional interpretation of migration. This microhistorical reconstruction acknowledges her agency and subjectivity as a high-skilled migrant woman; intertwines her life story with the larger dynamics of the migrant networks in Turkey; and brings it into dialogue with macro-level structural factors with regards to the war, the mass murder and the global movement of European Jews

Genealogy · Sociology · Demography · European history and politics · Gender Studies · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History

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