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Exhibition
The Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archive organizes an exhibition on "The Jewess" between April-October 2002. The exhibition is a part of the ongoing research project of recovering women's past which aims to introduce the traditional religion based Jewish women's life cycle, and their responses to modernity at the end of the 19th century Hungary: what kind of new opportunities, patterns were available for Jewish women while they increasingly got involved in science and arts? The exhibition is organized in a way that it moves from general to individual life stories: in the first room items related to general religious duties are exhibited. The general religious duties of Jewess are: ritual cleaning in the mikve, lightening the sabbath candle and preparing kosher food. In the second room items of individual female life courses from birth to death are exhibited. With introducing individual life stories about girls` education, marriage, giving birth, and activity of Jewish women's associations using material from family archives the exhibition aims to introduce the social process that made the "Jewess" the symbol of modernity, when they were breaking out from traditional life frames leaving behind the values of their mothers, Jewesses became the first female students of universities, and audience and producers of modern art. In the third and in the fourth room individual life strategies are exhibited through the works of well known Jewesses. Through the portrait and works of 120 famous Jewish women organized in thematic block, their remarkable achievements in the field of arts, politics, sport literature, theater, science are introduced. The exhibition has a bilingual catalogue English/Hungarian with photos of the exhibition and important essays on the history of Hungarian Jewess.For more information contact Zsuzsa Toronyi, the curator of the exhibition at sosana@freemail.hu
"Hungarian Women in 1956" a conference was organized in Budapest
by Magyar Asszonyok Ezredevi Szovetsege (Millennial Alliance of Hungarian Women)
on 5 December 2001. The Alliance was founded in 2000 consisting of 16 civil
women's organizations headed by Ilona Ekes. Celebrating the 45th anniversary
of the revolution of 1956 the Alliance started an oral history research to collect
women's memory of 1956 and what was their cooping strategy if they were prisoned.
The conference which was organized to commemorate the women's demonstration
of 4 December 1956, a month after the Soviet occupation of Hungary, The silent,
mass demonstration of women on 4 December 1956 estimated 15-25 000 so far was
a forgotten part of the history of 1956. Women were demonstrating for freedom
and to stop the deportation of their sons and husband to Siberia. Lectures were
give by experts and participants of the oral history project besides others
Zsuzsa Bogre, Borbala Juhasz, Andrea Peto. The ministry of Cultural Heritage,
Ministry of Justice, funded the conference and the research.
For more info contact: borbala.juhasz@freemail.huborbala.juhasz@freemail.hu
The Balassi Publishing House, Budapest launches a series: "Feminism and
History".
The following titles were published:
Miles, Rosalind, A World History of Women, 2000
Scott, Joan ed. Feminism and History, 2001
Peto, Andrea, Rajk Julia. A Biography, 2001
Forthcoming:
Mosse, George, The Image of Men, 2002
For more info contact: judit.borus@arktisz.hu
The Center of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Economics, Budapest
is organizing a conference: Woman and Man. Man and Woman. The State of Art of
Gender Studies research in Hungary 23-24 November 2002. For the section: "Gender:
History, Nation, Memory" 24 papers were accepted. For more info contact
the organizer of the section: Andrea Peto at petoand@axelero.hu
-compiled by Andrea Peto