No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen

Reviews / Votes

"No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen tells a compelling and provocatively contrarian story of the German-Jewish migration to pre-state Palestine. Viola Alianov-Rautenburg offers a novel gendered analysis of the often caricatured and still remarkably under-researched flight of bourgeois Jews to a scrappy multicultural and contested Mandatory Palestine."-Atina Grossmann, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art "Based on a rich collection of sources, No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen offers an innovative examination of the historical saga of German-Jewish immigration to Palestine. Emphasizing the gender perspective, this book is one of the best new works on the history of immigration."-Guy Miron, Open University of Israel "[No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen] uses a rich array of primary and secondary sources, and the memoirs and notes left by the women are especially helpful in understanding what it was like for a German-Jewish woman in 1930s Palestine. This book covers familiar territory, but Alianov-Rautenberg provides new insights by looking at people previously neglected through a lens that few historians analyzing Zionism have considered. Recommended."-G. R. Sharfman, CHOICE "Viola Arianov-Rautenberg's captivating study revisits the German-Jewish migration to Mandatory Palestine, utilizing several theoretical prisms alongside a sharp empirical analysis based on a wide variety of sources, and much methodological innovation. Providing fascinating insights through multiple lenses and layers of day-to-day life, primarily gender, migration, economy and the labor market, and even cooking and eating habits,No Longer Ladies and Gentlemenis a model of a sophisticated social history that interweaves new points of view into a well-written, outstandingly nuanced, and sensitive historical narrative."-Lihi Ben Shitrit, Kimmy Caplan, and Oded Haklai, Israel Studies Review