Rosa Manus (1881-1942): The International Life and Legacy of a Jewish Dutch FeministMyriam Everard, Francisca de Haan Rosa Manus (1881–1942) uncovers the life of Dutch feminist and peace activist Rosa Manus, co-founder of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, vice-president of the International Alliance of Women, and founding president of the International Archives for the Women’s Movement (IAV) in Amsterdam, revealing its rootedness in Manus’s radical secular Jewishness. Because the Nazis looted the IAV (1940) including Manus’s large personal archive, and subsequently arrested (1941) and murdered her (1942), Rosa Manus has been almost unknown to later generations. This collective biography offers essays based on new and in-depth research on pictures and documents from her archives, returned to Amsterdam in 2003, as well as other primary sources. It thus restores Manus to the history from which the Nazis attempted to erase her. Contributors include: Margot Badran, Mineke Bosch, Ellen Carol DuBois, Myriam Everard, Karen Garner, Francisca de Haan, Dagmar Wernitznig, and Annika Wilmers. "The volume touches on all of the important themes of that history—the centrality of peace activism, the impact of the world wars and the rise of fascism, the tensions over imperialism and nationalist resistance in colonized countries, the importance of resources to the persistence of the movement, the vital glue of intimate relationships—and brings to the fore additional ones, including the role of Jewish women, the centrality of Dutch feminists in transnational feminism, and the struggle over preserving the history of the movement." - Leila J. Rupp, University of California, Santa Barbara, in: Women's History Review (2018) |
Contents
Recovering the Legacy of Rosa Manus | 1 |
Part 1 Essays | 23 |
The Genealogy of a Jewish Dutch Feminist
| 25 |
2 Rosa Manus at the 1915 International Congress of Women
in The Hague and Her Involvement in the Early WILPF | 59 |
3 Rosa Manus Katharina von KardorffOheimb and the Bonds of HighFinancial Womanhood
| 88 |
The Womens Disarmament Committee 19311939 and the International Politics of Disarmament in the 1930s
| 128 |
Rosa Manuss Peace Activism in the 1930s
| 160 |
Encounters with Egyptians
| 184 |
Figure 916 | 332 |
Figure 917 | 333 |
Figure 918 | 336 |
FIgure 919 | 339 |
Figure 920 | 340 |
Figure 921 | 342 |
Part 3 Documents | 345 |
Document 1 | 347 |
Rosa Manus Rosika Schwimmer and the Struggle about Establishing an International Womens Archive
| 207 |
Chapter 8 | 240 |
Part 2 Pictures | 301 |
Figure 91 | 302 |
Figure 92 | 304 |
Figure 93 | 306 |
Figure 94 | 308 |
Figure 95 | 310 |
Figure 96 | 311 |
Figure 97 | 315 |
Figure 98 | 317 |
Figure 99 | 319 |
Figure 910 | 320 |
Figure 911 | 322 |
Figure 912 | 324 |
Figure 913 | 326 |
Figure 914 | 329 |
Figure 915 | 331 |
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Aletta Jacobs Alliance of Women American Ammers-Küller Amsterdam April Baddack Berlin Bertha Lutz board member Boissevain Brussels Carrie Chapman Catt Catt Papers Chapter Collection IAV Comité communist Congress of Women delegates Disarmament Committee Disarmament Conference Document Dutch Emily Greene Balch February feminism feminist Geneva German Hague IAV in Atria ICWPP Internationaal International Alliance International Congress International Woman Suffrage international women’s movement Jane Addams Jetteke Jewish Jews Kardorff Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb Kathinka Kloosterman League of Nations letter Manus to Catt Margery Corbett Ashby Mary Dingman meeting Mineke Bosch Miss Manus Nazi Nederlandsche Netherlands Neutraal Vrouwencomité neutral PDC-WIO Peace and Disarmament petitions Polak Politics and Friendship portrait president Ravensbrück Rosa Manus Rosa Manus Papers Rosa Manus’s Rosika Schwimmer Schain Schwimmer Papers secretary Sha’rawi University Press Vereeniging Vrouw Vrouwen Vrouwenbelangen WCWA WILPF Woman Suffrage Alliance Women’s History Women’s International Organisations women’s movement women’s organizations women’s suffrage World