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prof. Lenore J. Weitzman

Women in the Holocaust: responses and coping strategies

21 listopada 2011 r. poniedziałek

godz. 12:30

Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

sala Rady Wydziału Filozoficzno-Historycznego

ul. A. Kamińskiego 27a

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Prof. Lenore J. Weitzman ukończyła Cornell University (B.S.), Columbia University (doktorat z socjologii) oraz Yale Law School. Jest współwydawcą wraz z Dalią Ofer książki Women in the Holocaust (Yale 1999). Obecnie pracuje nad książką o kobietach-kurierach (kashariyot) w żydowskim ruchu oporu w czasie wojny.

Lenore J. Weitzman,  was educated at Cornell University (B.S.), Columbia University (Ph.D. in Sociology), and Yale Law School. She has published 5 books including the award-winning The Divorce Revolution: The Unexpected Social and Economic Consequences for Women and Children in America (1985), which focused attention on the economic hardships that no-fault divorce laws created for women and children. Her research led to the passage of 14 new laws in California and influenced national legislation on child support and pensions. Lenore J. Weitzman is also a dedicated teacher and has been a Professor at Stanford University, the University of California, and Harvard University, where she received Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa distinguished teaching award. She is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Sociology and Law at George Mason University and will be a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan in 2011-2012. Lenore Weitzman’s recent work focuses on the Holocaust. She co-edited Women in the Holocaust, (Yale, 1999) with Dalia Ofer, a finalist for two Jewish Book Awards, and is now writing a book on The Kashariyot (the women couriers) in the Jewish resistance in the ghetto period in Central and Eastern Europe. She also has a long-standing interest in (and published several articles on) Jews who thwarted and evaded the Nazis by passing on false documents. Her honors include a Guggenheim fellowship; membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; a Fulbright Fellowship in Israel; the Kroener fellowship in Holocaust studies at Oxford; and fellowships from Ford, Rockefeller, NSF, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in the United States. In 2007 she received a national medal as a ‘Feminist Who Changed America’. In addition to her academic work, Lenore Weitzman serves on the Board of Directors of the Feminist Press and is the former Chair of the Board of Directors of Women for Women International, a non-profit organization founded to help the women who suffered in the rape camps and concentration camps in the former Yugoslavia (which later expanded to women in Rwanda, Kosovo, and the Congo).

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