Hungarian Pocahontas – The Life and Times of Laura Polanyi Stricker, 1882–1959
Regular price
€43.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Judith Szapor
Author_Judith Szapor
Category=DNBH
Category=JBSF1
Category=NHTB
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Product details
- ISBN 9780880335621
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 142 x 222mm
- Publication Date: 03 Aug 2005
- Publisher: East European Monographs
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This book sheds light on the life of the intellectual refugee Laura Polanyi Stricker, whose contributions to the progressive counterculture and women's movement of turn-of-the-century Austria-Hungary have remained unexplored. Stricker, the elder sister of Karl and Michael Polanyi, was a pioneering feminist and educator as well as a historian whose work on Captain John Smith earned her the epithet of the title. The book explores the family's history during a little-known period of Central European history in light of narratives of women's emancipation and Jewish assimilation. Szapor discusses patterns and networks of immigration and the experience of women refugees. By incorporating previously unexplored public and family archives, along with extensive interviews, Szapor brings to the forefront the volatility of early-twentieth-century Hungary, the political and artistic ferment of Vienna and Weimar Berlin, and the Polanyis' flight from Hitler.
Judith Szapor is assistant professor of history at the University of Ottawa. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
