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11.   Elsa Herrmann, This is the New Woman (1929)
Elsa Herrmann (1893-?) first trained and worked as a teacher at the Höhere Israelitische Bürgerschule [Israelite Secondary School] in Leipzig before she earned a Ph.D. in law from Leipzig....
12.   Lola Landau, "The Companionate Marriage" (1929)
German-Jewish writer Lola (Leonore) Landau (1892-1990) was best known as a poet, but she also wrote plays, radio plays, and articles for various publications. This article appeared in Die Tat,....
13.   Max Brod, "Women and the New Objectivity" (1929)
This essay by writer and critic Max Brod (1884-1968) was included in the publication Die Frau von Morgen, wie wir sie wünschen [The Woman of the Future as We Wish Her to Be] (1929),....
14.   Grete Ujhely, "A Call for Sexual Tolerance" (1930)
Austrian-born writer and journalist Margaret (Grete) Ujhaly (1903-1997) penned this “call” for Der Querschnitt [The Cross Section], a zeitgeist magazine geared towards an intellectual....
15.   Hilde Walter, "Twilight for Women?" (1931)
Journalist Hilde Walter (1895-1976) was a social worker until 1918; later, she studied literature and art history and became a journalist after World War I. She wrote articles for Die Weltbühne,....
16.   Felix Gilbert on the Sexual Morals of the New Generation (Retrospective Account, 1988)
In this excerpt from his 1998 memoirs, German-American historian Felix Gilbert (1905-1991), who lived in Berlin until his emigration in 1933, describes his generation’s attitudes towards sexual identity....
17.   George L. Mosse on Sexual Awakening and Sexual Repression in the Weimar Republic (Retrospective Account, 2000)
German-American historian George Lachmann Mosse (1918-1999) was born into a Jewish family of publishers....
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