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SUMMARY:Affect and Emotion in Bertha Pappenheim’s Activism
DESCRIPTION:In a 1932 prayer German-Jewish feminist leader and social activ
 ist Bertha Pappenheim\, implored God to sustain her rage in the face of in
 justice: “Grollender Zorn erfüllt mich! Ich will ihn behalten\, er soll
  in mir brennen – solange das besteht\, was ihn zu recht erregt.” Frie
 nds and opponents alike observed the strong emotions that compelled her ac
 tivism but judged them differently. What Martin Buber admired as “passio
 n and demanding severity borne of love\,” others diagnosed as “man-hat
 ing” and “fanatical\, almost pathological hate.”\n\nIn dialogue with
  recent work on the role of affect and emotion in social movements (Pensla
 r on the Zionist Movement and Gould on AIDS activism\, among others)\, I t
 race the affective rhetoric in Pappenheim’s speeches and writing about t
 wo intertwined causes—women’s role in Jewish life and the campaign aga
 inst the trafficking of women––to argue that anger\, outrage\, and mor
 al indignation were not incidental to her activism but constitutive of it.
  These emotions\, alongside others such as compassion\, hope\, and solidar
 ity worked to mobilize others\, create an activist community\, and sustain
  their work over decades. I pay particular attention to the gendered doubl
 e-bind that reframed Pappenheim’s justified rage as pathology\, and to w
 hat it cost Jewish women to suppress the very emotions that injustice warr
 anted.\n\nElizabeth Loentz is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and 
 Associate Director of the School of Literatures\, Cultural Studies\, and L
 inguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of 
 Let Me Continue to Speak the Truth: Bertha Pappenheim as Author and Activi
 st (Hebrew Union College Press) and is currently completing a monograph wi
 th the working title: “Mame-loshn in the Fatherland: The Meaning of Yidd
 ish in Germany from the First World War through the Postwar Occupation.”
  Broader research and teaching interests include German-Jewish literature\
 , the German-Jewish women’s movement\, Yiddish in Germany\, translation 
 theory\, and Holocaust literature. Prior to her doctoral studies\, she tau
 ght German at the Haus Chevalier Clearing-House for unaccompanied refugee 
 minors in Hallbergmoos\, Germany.
LOCATION:Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main\, Campus Westend\, Seminarpa
 villon\, Raum 0.01\, Frankfurt am Main
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 tion-in-bertha-pappenheims-activism
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