Based on family memories, historical documents and photographs, it brings to life the fate and exceptional achievements of women born in the first quarter of the twentieth century.
"This exhibition sheds light on the lives of young women who were directly impacted by the law. It examines the ways in which they tried to circumvent the law, and defend and assert their autonomy, both as individuals and members of their community, be that social, cultural, political, or religious. The form their resistance took, whether they were successful in defending the achievements of Jewish and female emancipation, whether they were able to escape or at least mitigate the terms of strong asymmetrical dependency, is the subject of this exhibition." (BCDSS Investigator Béla Bodó)
Launched at the 2b Gallery, Budapest, in August 2021, the exhibition has been adopted by the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) for the Women's Museum Bonn. It originates from a research project on “Academic antisemitism, women’s emancipation, and Jewish assimilation” by Judith Szapor of McGill University, Montreal, which was funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council via a Canada Insight Grant.
To register for the opening event, please send an email with your name by November 18, 2022 to: events@dependency.uni-bonn.de