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LIVES REMEMBERED:
MEMOIRS OF GERMAN-JEWISH WOMEN
WHO LEFT GERMANY IN THE 1930s
by
Sabine Yael Meyer
_____________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(GERMAN)
December 2009
Copyright 2009 Sabine Yael Meyer
Object Description
| Title | Lives remembered: memoirs of German-Jewish women who left Germany in the 1930s |
| Author | Meyer, Sabine Yael |
| Author email | sabineyael@gmail.com; smeyer@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | German |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-08-05 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-09-11 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Clausing, Gerhard |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Schnauber, Cornelius Lerner, Paul |
| Abstract | This interdisciplinary study examines issues relating to history, memory, gender, and identity by looking at forty-seven unpublished memoirs of female Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. The memoirs represented were written between the early 1940s and the 1990s; all of them were originally composed in German; their authors were German or Austrian nationals.; The research questions guiding the analysis address the identity of the authors, as well as their intention and motivation to engage in writing their life histories. Who is writing? How do the accounts represent the authors’ identities? How do the texts construct gendered, national, Jewish identities? How do the authors’ nationality, religion, ethnicity, class and gender shape their experiences and observations? How do the writers remember their formative years? How do they reflect on their families and their professional lives? How do these survivors deal with the experience of loss, displacement and exile? What motivated these women to write their memoirs?; The analysis also reflects on the nature of written testimonial accounts as historical documents on the one hand, and mediated textual constructs on the other. The inquiry includes a brief discussion of the status of eyewitness accounts in the study of history, and the contentious ‘truth’ status of testimonial accounts.; The main focus of the analysis is on memoirs as literary constructs, which employ a wide range of literary and rhetorical devices, and generally adhere to the generic conventions of autobiography. Autobiographical genres in general, and memoirs in particular, offer important insights on how we act in the world and subsequently reflect on our actions and experiences. They invite us to examine the role of human beings as historical agents who write history from a subjective viewpoint. It is at this intersection of the study of literature, history and culture where autobiographical writing enhances our understanding of history. |
| Keyword | memoir; autobiography; Jewish women; Germany; Nazi Germany |
| Geographic coordinates | Germany |
| Coverage date | 1930/1939 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2601 |
| Rights | Meyer, Sabine Yael |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Meyer-3219 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-Meyer-3219.pdf |
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| Full text | LIVES REMEMBERED: MEMOIRS OF GERMAN-JEWISH WOMEN WHO LEFT GERMANY IN THE 1930s by Sabine Yael Meyer _____________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (GERMAN) December 2009 Copyright 2009 Sabine Yael Meyer |
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