College:
Wolfson College
Course:
DPhil Oriental Studies (Modern Jewish History)
Thesis Title:
Producing New Women: Work and Consumer Culture in the Wilhelmine Jewish Garment Trade
Contact:
angelina.palmen(a)wolfson.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
My dissertation, supervised by Professor David Rechter, examines the promotion of the feminism and women’s rights by companies in the Berlin industry for ready-made fashion and their mostly Jewish owners and executive directors 1890–1914. My research interests include Jewish occupational and business history, gender, women's and feminist history, and visual culture. I am passionate about feminist scholarship, mixed methodologies and inter-disciplinary research, teaching and public outreach. I am currently a Dr Sophie Bookhalter Graduate Fellow at the Center for Jewish History in New York.
Recent Publications and/or Conferences:
2021 'Josephine Levy Rathenau.' A brief biography of a German-Jewish social work pioneer.
Jewish Women's Archive online Encyclopaedia: https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/levy-rathenau-josephine
2021 Jewish Studies Graduate Student Association Conference (Bloomington, Indiana):
'Gender and Work in the Berlin-Jewish Garment Trade Jewish Feminists and Jewish 'Capitalists' in Conversation,'
Panel: Fashioning Jewish Girls and Women in Germany at the Turn of the Century,'
with response from Professor Kerry Wallach (Gettysburg College)
2019 Summer Institute for Modern and Contemporary Judaism (Oxford):
Respondent on panel for Modern Jewish History & Gender
2018-2020 Leo Baeck Fellows' Workshops in German-Jewish History (Leipzig; Brighton):
Thesis presentation and Response
2019-2020 Posen Fellows' Workshops (Berkeley):
Thesis presentation and Response
2017 Gender and Inequality Interdisciplinary Workshop (Glasgow/Oxford)
'Patriotism, Patronage and Empowerment: German-Jewish Clothiers and 'their' Women Workers 1914–1918'
