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Publications – Prof. Judith Baumel-Schwartz Nov 2020 Publications – Prof. Judith Baumel-Schwartz Books (as author) 1. Unfulfilled Promise: The Jewish Refugee Children in the United States 1934-1945, The Denali Press, Juneau 1990. (228p.) (The book received the First Prize: Honorable Mention - The Sixth Janusz Korczak Literary Competition Honoring Books Published in 1990 or 1991, The Anti- Defamation League of Bnai Brith, New York.) 2. A Voice of Lament: The Holocaust and Prayer, [Heb.] Bar-Ilan University Press, Ramat Gan 1992. (240p.) 3a. Kibbutz Buchenwald, [Heb.], Kibbutz Hameuchad, Beit Lochamei Hagetaot, Tel-Aviv 1995. (191p.) 3b. Kibbutz Buchenwald: Survivors and Pioneers, New Brunswick, N.J,: Rutgers University Press, 1997. (xi + 195p.) 4. Double Jeopardy: Gender and the Holocaust, London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1998, 292p. 5a. From Ideology to Propaganda: The "Irgun" Delegation in the USA 1939-1948, [Heb.] Jerusalem: Magnes, 1999, 236p. 5b. The "Bergson Boys" and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005, 331p. 6a. Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists from Palestine and The Collective Israeli Memory, (Heb.), Sde Boqer: Sde Boqer and Ben-Gurion University Press, 2004, 348p. (The book received the Reuben and Edith Hecht Prize for the best book on Zionism or State of Israel published in 2004) 6b. Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists from Palestine and the Making of Collective Israeli Memory, University of Wisconsin Press, 2010, 282p. 7. The Incredible Adventures of Buffalo Bill of Bochnia (68715): The Story of a Galician Jew – Persecution, Liberation, Transformation, Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, 2009, 228 p. 8. Never Look Back: The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain 1938-1945, West Lafayette, In.: Purdue University Press, 2012, 286p. 9. Identity, Heroism and Religion in the Lives of Contemporary Jewish Women, Bern: Peter Lang, 2013, 474p. 10. My Name is Freida Sima: The American-Jewish Women's Immigrant Experience Through the Eyes of a Young Girl from the Bukovina, Bern: Peter Lang, 2017, 367p. (in Hebrew: Korim Li Freida Sima: Olam Hamehagrot Beartzot Habrit Be'einei Na'ara MiBukovina, Tel-Aviv: Resling, 2019, 393p.) 11. A Very Special Life: The Bernice Chronicles. One Woman's Journey Through Twentieth Century Jewish America, Bern: Peter Lang, 2017, 433p. (in Hebrew Eleh Toldot Bernice: Masa Nitzachon Shel Isha Yehudiya MeHaBronx, Tel-Aviv: Resling, 2021 forthcoming) 2 12. For the Love Of Shirley: One Woman's Challenges and Choices in Postwar Jewish America, Bern: Peter Lang, 2020, 404p. Books and Journals (as editor) 1. Voices from the “Canada Commando”: Testimonies of Seven Women from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp, Jerusalem: Emuna, 1989 100p. [in Hebrew] 2. Great Figures in Jewish History (together with Prof. Joseph Dan), the Open University of Israel, Tel-Aviv 1991 240p. [in Russian] 3. The Israel State Archives, vol. 13, in the series Archives of the Holocaust (Henry Friedlander and Sybil Milton, series eds.) New York, Garland Press, 1991. (365p.) 4. Guest Editor, Jewish History 11/2 (1997), 134p. 5. The Holocaust Encyclopedia (Associate Editor with Walter Laqueur), New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2001, 765p. (in English, Italian[2002], Russian [2003] and Japanese [2004]) 6. Gender, Place, and Memory in the Modern Jewish Experience: Re-Placing Ourselves, (with Prof. Tova Cohen, co-editor), London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2003, 297p. 7. Loving and Beloved: The Diary of Susi Adler, a child of the Kindertransport, (Heb.) Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2004, 83p. 8. Editor of the Bulletin of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, [English and Hebrew.] no. 1-9 (1988-2001). 9. To Save the Children. Buchenwald – A Story of Loss and Rescue, (Hebrew scientific edition of Jack Werber and William Helmreich, Saving Children: Diary of a Buchenwald Survivor and Rescuer) Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2010, 177p. 10. Dalia Ofer, Francoise Ouzan and Judith Baumel-Schwartz (eds.), Holocaust Survivors: Resettlement, Memories, Identities New York and Oxford: Berghahn Press, 2012. 11. Co-Editor of online Encyclopedia of America's Response to the Holocaust, The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. http://enc.wymaninstitute.org 12. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Dalia Ofer, Her Story, My Story? Writing and Women and the Holocaust, Bern: Peter Lang, 2020, 382p. 13. Michal Ben-Ya'akov, Ben-Tsion Klibansky, and Judith Baumel-Schwartz (eds.) "A World in Turmoil": World War I and its Impact on the Jewish World, History, Thought, Reality, (Hebrew) Jerusalem: Efrata, 206+41p (forthcoming 2021) 14. Goodbye America: Fifty Years of American Jewish Women's Aliyah 1967- 2017, Bern: Peter Lang Publishers, (forthcoming 2021) 15. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Alan Schneider (eds.), All Their Brothers and Sisters: Jews Saving Jews During the Holocaust, Bern: Peter Lang Publishers (forthcoming 2021) 16. Nathan Stolfuss, Mordecai Paldiel and Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz (eds.), Saying No To Hitler: Women's Rescue and Defiance, Bloombsbury, forthcoming 2022). 17. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Shmuel Refael-Vivante (eds.), The Darkest Equation: Research as an Arena of Memory for Offspring of 3 Holocaust Survivors, A collection of academic autobiographies, Bern: Peter Lang Publishers (forthcoming 2022) 18. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Shmuel Refael Vivante (eds.), Researchers Remember: Research as an Arena of Memory for Offspring of Holocaust Survivors (Hebrew), (forthcoming 2022) 19. Phyllis Lassner and Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz (eds.), Their Lives, Our Words: Holocaust Literature and Representation, (forthcoming 2022) Chapters in Books: 1. “Religious Life of the Jewish Refugee Children in Britain 1938-1945" [Heb.], Nethaniel Katzburg, (ed.) Pedut: Rescue During the Holocaust [Heb.], Ramat Gan, 1984, pp. 125-201. 2. “Kibbutz Buchenwald", Y. Gutman and A. Saf (eds.), She'erit Hapletah, 1944 - 1948: Rehabilitation and Political Struggle, Jerusalem 1990, pp. 437-449. (also in Hebrew) 3. “The Ninety Three Bais Yaakov Girls of Cracow: History or Typology” [with Jacob J. Schacter], J. J. Schacter (ed.), Reverence, Righteousness, and Rahamanut: Essays in Memory of Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung, New York: Jason Aronson, 1992, pp. 93-130. 4. “Teaching the Holocaust Through the Diary of Anne Frank”, Alex Grobman and Joel Fishman (eds.), Anne Frank in Historical Perspective: A Teaching Guide for Secondary Schools, Los Angeles 1995, pp. 49-54. 5. “Rochka and the Two Rivkas: The Leadership of the Zehnnershcaft in Plaszow” (Heb.) in Avihu Ronen and Yehoyakim Kochavi (eds.) Third Person Singular vol 2, Givat Haviva: Yad Ya’ari 1995, pp. 133-159. 6. "Women's Holocaust Literature", Jacob Kabakoff, ed., Jewish Book Annual, New York: Jewish Book Council, 1996, pp. 92-102. 7. “Non-Zionists and Anti-Zionists and the Question of the Establishment of the State of Israel, Before and After the Holocaust" in N. Barzel (ed.), Founding a State, Tel-Aviv: HaKibbutz HaMeuchad, Reches, Oranim, 1997, pp. 324- 332. 8. “The ‘Parachutist’s Mission’ From a Gender Perspective”, Ruby Rohrlich (ed.), Resisting the Holocaust, Oxford and New York: Berg, 1998, pp. 95-113. 9. “Gender and Family Studies of the Holocaust", Donald G. Schilling, ed., Lessons and Legacies II: Teaching the Holocaust in a Changing World, Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1998, pp. 105-117. 10. “Kehilath Morya: Portrait of a Refugee Community in New York City, 1943- 1987", Dan Michman (ed.), Belgium and the Holocaust: Jews. Belgians. Germans, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1998, pp. 499-521. 11. “Gender and Holocaust Studies” (Heb.), R. L. Melamed (ed.), “Lift Up Your Voice”: Women’s voices and Feminist Interpretation in Jewish Studies, Tel-Aviv: Yediot Acharonot and Sifrei Hemed, 2001, pp. 159-165. 12. "We Were There Too: Women’s Commemoration in Israeli Military Memorials” (Heb.), in: Margalit Shilo, Ruth Kark, Galit Hasan-Rokem (eds.), Jewish Women in the Yishuv and Zionism: A Gender Perspective, Jerusalem, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, 2001, pp. 434-456. (in English: "We Were 4 There Too: Women's Commemoration in Israeli War Memorials", in: Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo and Galit Hasan-Roken (eds.), Jewish Women in Pre- State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture, Waltham: Brandeis UP and Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 2008, pp. 321-337.) 13. Muetter und Kaempferinnen: Geschlechterbilder in israelischen Shoah-Denkmaelern”, in Insa Eschebach, Sigrid Jacobeit, Silke Wenk (Hg.), Gedaechtnis und Geschlecht: Deutungsmuster in Darstellungen des National-Sozialistischen Genozids, Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 2002, pp. 343-361. 14. “Introduction”, Phillip K. Jason and Iris Posner (eds.), Don’t Wave Goodbye: The Children’s Flight from Nazi Persecution to American Freedom, Westport Ct. and London : Praeger, 2004, pp. 1-18. 15. "The Study of Women, Gender and Family during the Holocaust: The Development of an Historical Discipline” (Heb.), in: Esther Hertzog (ed.), Women and Family in the Holocaust, Tel-Aviv: Otzar Hamishpat, 2006, pp. 1-26. (in English: "Gender and Family Studies of the Holocaust: The Development of a Historical Discipline", in Esther Hertzog (ed.), Life, Death and Sacrifice: Women and Family in the Holocaust, Jerusalem and New York: Gefen, 2008, pp. 21-40. 16. "Women's Commemoration in Israel" (Heb.) Ariel 185 (Sept. 2008), pp. 66- 79. 17. "The Identity of Women in the She'erit Hapleta: Personal and Gendered Identity as Determinants in their Rehabilitation, Immigration and Resettlement", in: Dalia Ofer, Francoise Ouzan and Judith Baumel-Schwartz (eds.), Holocaust
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