Rosika Schwimmer (1877, Budapest–1948, New York) was one of the best-known women’s rights leaders and peace activists in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and worldwide. Unfortunately, she has been ...mostly forgotten or treated superficially in Hungarian and international scholarship until recently. In this article, I give a short description of the Rosika Schwimmer Papers in the New York Public Library, where I have been researching since 2017, and of the history of this archive, with a short biographical sketch of the life and career of Schwimmer.
Across East Central Europe, World War I and its violent aftermath impacted Jewish perspectives on home and homeland and forced many Jews to reconsider, reformulate, and at times even discard previous ...beliefs about the idea of national belonging. In Hungary, the White Terror of the early 1920s set off shock waves among the population of mainly urban Hungarian Jews, who until then had imagined themselves relatively safe. As social exclusion entered public and domestic life, it deeply influenced the way Jews imagined themselves at home in postwar Hungary. This article examines the ways in which Jewish women navigated the transitional period between war and peace in Hungary, and asks how the postwar years affected their sense of belonging and notions of home. Apart from being catapulted into public life, how did women navigate the intersection of antisemitism, physical violence, and displacement? How, for instance, did Jewish women react to the influx of Jewish refugees from Galicia, among them many children, who arrived in Budapest in great numbers seeking shelter and aid? Did the displacement of East European Jews affect existing notions of charity and Jewish identity among the women involved in humanitarian aid? And finally, how did war, revolution, and violence change Jewish women’s sense of identity as Hungarian?
The Fearless Four Lloyd, Robin
Peace and freedom (1978),
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83, Issue:
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"The book was not a bestseller, but it was timely, and it made enough of an impact in Washington that Eleanor Roosevelt invited the two to dinner at the White House in June 1944," Threlkeld notes ...(167). Reading Threlkeld's book in 2023, as militarism runs rogue across the world and a major war in the center of Europe obstructs the delivery of food and energy to peoples everywhere, it seems obvious that new ways of thinking and new mass movements must emerge. In the first few pages of the book, he describes Rosika's 1929 defense of her right to American citizenship before the US Supreme Court. Uribe's book is a sometimes lighthearted chronicle of his research at the New York Public Library from 2018 to 2021, interspersed with reminiscences of his youth growing up with a group of
The monthly journal A No és a Társadalom (Woman and society) was launched in 1907 by two organizations, Feministák Egyesülete (Association of Feminists) and Notisztviselok Országos Egyesülete ...(National Organization of Female Clerks) in Budapest. Based on archival research, this article describes the foundation of the journal in 1907, the working methods it strived to adopt, and the role editor-in-chief Róza Schwimmer played during this period. The article shows that A No és a Társadalom performed a variety of crucial functions in the Hungarian women's movement of the time, including that of being a means of informal education for its readers. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Vira Boarman Whitehouse was the triumphant New York suffragist leader and Committee on Public Information director for Switzerland in 1918. Rosika Schwimmer was a prominent feminist turned diplomatic ...representative for Hungary between Oct 1918 and Jan 1919. Glant surveys Whitehouse's Swiss mission, describes the Whitehouse-Schwimmer relationship between 1914 and 1919, concludes with an assessment of Schwimmer's mission and places the whole story in a broader context.
