Social Work Between Germany and Mandatory Palestine: Pre- and Post-Immigration Biographies of Female Jewish Practitioners as a Case Study of Professional Reconstruction
When social work emerged as a profession in the first decades of the 20th century, it was strongly influenced by emancipatory motives introduced by various sociocultural and religious movements, and at the same time devoted itself to the construction and maintenance of a powerful welfare and nation...
Published in: | Naharaim |
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Authors: | ; |
Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
[2019]
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Naharaim
Year: 2019, Volume: 13, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 163-188 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Jewish community
/ Social work
/ Jewish woman
/ Palestine
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RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism KBB German language area KBL Near East and North Africa ZA Social sciences |
Further subjects: | B
social work and Zionism
B women and migration B Jewish welfare |
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Summary: | When social work emerged as a profession in the first decades of the 20th century, it was strongly influenced by emancipatory motives introduced by various sociocultural and religious movements, and at the same time devoted itself to the construction and maintenance of a powerful welfare and nation state. Transnational agents and social movements promoted these processes and played a crucial role in establishing and developing national welfare systems and relevant professional discourses. This article examines the gendered construction of the social work profession through the transnational history of early social work between Germany and the Jewish community in Palestine in the first half of the 20th century. By adopting a biographical approach to the specific paths of Jewish women practitioners who had been educated in German-speaking countries, immigrated to mandatory Palestine, and engaged themselves in the emerging field of social work, we will trace the construction of the profession as deeply embedded in social power relations. At the same time, we will trace its (re)construction as led mainly by female pioneers, who were concerned with emancipation, discrimination and migration. |
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ISSN: | 1862-9156 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Naharaim
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/naha-2018-0103 |