Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In the current issue of EEHS Open Forum we would like to recognize the work and career of an exceptional scholar, historian and friend on the occasion of her 60th birthday.The importance of Andrea Pető and her influence in the field of gender studies, her ever original research and historical interpretation, as well as her unbeatable character, have been an inspiration to her friends, colleagues and students not only in Hungary and Austriaplaces where she has spent most of her time working and livingbut indeed transnationally.It is our aim to reflect on the impact of gender studies on Holocaust research, and in the same way to facilitate discussion on these topics.Therefore, in place of candles on a cake, we would like to present several articles that deal with the ways in which the work of our colleague Andrea Pető has influenced scholarship in the field of gender history, as well as Holocaust and memory studies.Andrea Pető's academic life has been anything but solely academic.Ever since her early days as a historian and educator, she became known as a fierce warrior for academic freedom and integrity.She never succumbed to the lure of fashionable theories for their sake alone or to any kind of groupthink, but forged her beliefs with hard work, and vigorously contested the pressures of power structures against intellectual honesty and the rights of the individual.This Open Forum works primarily in relation to Andrea Pető's work on Gender and the Holocaust and has been conceptualized in such a way that each participant writes comments/reactions to the papers in the Forum, and in so doing creates a shared commentary on Andrea Pető's works, but also on the importance of gender studies research in Holocaust studies.This means that the Forum consists of two parts: the papers and the commentaries.The choice of research topic is a matter of personal preference and freedom.As a historian, I never wanted or intended to study the Holocaust.
Author: Andrea Feldman
Institution: University of Zagreb
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4415957574
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