Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Prologue: Jewish Women in Nazi Germany Before Emigration
- Part One A Global Search for Refuge
- Part Two Refuge in the United States
- 12 Women's Role in the German-Jewish Immigrant Community
- 13 “Listen sensitively and act spontaneously - but skillfully”: Selfhelp: An Eyewitness Report
- 14 “My only hope”: The National Council of Jewish Women's Rescue and Aid for German-Jewish Refugees
- 15 The Genossinen and the Khaverim: Socialist Women from the German-Speaking Lands and the American Jewish Labor Movement, 1933-1945
- 16 New Women in Exile: German Women Doctors and the Emigration
- 17 Women Emigré Psychologists and Psychoanalysts in the United States
- 18 Destination Social Work: Emigrés in a Women's Profession
- 19 Chicken Farming: Not a Dream but a Nightmare: An Eyewitness Report
- 20 The Occupation of Women Emigrés: Women Lawyers in the United States
- 21 Fashioning Fortuna's Whim: German-Speaking Women Emigrant Historians in the United States
- 22 Exile or Emigration: Social Democratic Women Members of the Reichstag in the United States
- 23 Women's Voices in American Exile
- Epilogue: The First Sex
- Index
20 - The Occupation of Women Emigrés: Women Lawyers in the United States
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Prologue: Jewish Women in Nazi Germany Before Emigration
- Part One A Global Search for Refuge
- Part Two Refuge in the United States
- 12 Women's Role in the German-Jewish Immigrant Community
- 13 “Listen sensitively and act spontaneously - but skillfully”: Selfhelp: An Eyewitness Report
- 14 “My only hope”: The National Council of Jewish Women's Rescue and Aid for German-Jewish Refugees
- 15 The Genossinen and the Khaverim: Socialist Women from the German-Speaking Lands and the American Jewish Labor Movement, 1933-1945
- 16 New Women in Exile: German Women Doctors and the Emigration
- 17 Women Emigré Psychologists and Psychoanalysts in the United States
- 18 Destination Social Work: Emigrés in a Women's Profession
- 19 Chicken Farming: Not a Dream but a Nightmare: An Eyewitness Report
- 20 The Occupation of Women Emigrés: Women Lawyers in the United States
- 21 Fashioning Fortuna's Whim: German-Speaking Women Emigrant Historians in the United States
- 22 Exile or Emigration: Social Democratic Women Members of the Reichstag in the United States
- 23 Women's Voices in American Exile
- Epilogue: The First Sex
- Index
Summary
The immigration of professionals from Nazi Germany has become a major field of research in the past ten years. It is perplexing, however, to see that the legal profession, until recently, remained by and large ignored. This is all the more astonishing given the role lawyers played in public life in Germany as well as in the United States. The majority of higher civil service positions in Germany were then, and still are, occupied by people with legal training. The role of lawyers in American public life has attained almost mystical dimensions. Between 2,000 and 4,000 lawyers from Central Europe took refuge in the Unites States, of whom approximately 10 percent managed to return to their original profession. There is a number of examples of jurists who had started promising careers in their home country and who achieved considerable fame in their country of exile, among them Otto Kahn-Freund in England and Chaim Cohn in Israel. Unmatched in numbers and achievement were refugee lawyers in the United States with names like Albert Ehrenzweig Jr., Rudolf Schlesinger, Max Rheinstein, Arthur Nussbaum, and Stefan Riesenfeld to name only a few of so many who left a lasting impact on the American legal sphere.
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- Between Sorrow and StrengthWomen Refugees of the Nazi Period, pp. 289 - 300Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995