Fighter, Worker, and Family Man : : German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933–1941 / / Sebastian Huebel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Huebel, Sebastian,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: German and European Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 29 b&w illustrations

When the Nazis came to power, they used various strategies to expel German Jews from social, cultural, and economic life. Fighter, Worker, and Family Man focuses on the gendered experiences and discrimination that German-Jewish men faced between 1933 and 1941. Sebastian Huebel argues that Jewish men’s gender identities, intersecting with categories of ethnicity, race, class, and age, underwent a profound process of marginalization that destabilized accustomed ways of performing masculinity. At the same time, in their attempts to sustain their conceptions of masculinity these men maintained agency and developed coping strategies that prevented their full-scale emasculation. Huebel draws on a rich archive of diaries, letters, and autobiographies to interpret the experiences of these men, focusing on their roles as soldiers and protectors, professionals and breadwinners, and parents and husbands. Fighter, Worker, and Family Man sheds light on how the Nazis sought to emasculate Jewish men through propaganda, the law, and violence, and how in turn German-Jewish men were able to defy emasculation and adapt – at least temporarily – to their marginalized status as men.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Unsoldierly Men? German Jews and Military Masculinity -- Chapter Two The Question of Race and Sex: Jewish Men and Race Defilement -- Chapter Three. Work until the End? Jewish Men and the Question of Employment -- Chapter Four. Double Burden? Jewish Men as Husbands and Fathers -- Chapter Five. Outside the KZ: Jewish Masculinities and the Rise of Nazi Violence -- Chapter Six. Inside the KZ: Jewish Masculinities in Prewar Nazi Concentration Camps -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Image and Photo Credits -- Index