Myrna Goldenberg

Why Studying Women in the Holocaust Is Important

Jewish women in Budapest, October 1944. Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. In 1998, Commentary editor, Gabriel Schoenfeld, railed against the emergence of scholarship on women in the Holocaust, thereby bringing this still nascent field to the attention of readers, many of whom were academics. Schoenfeld was dismissive of feminist perspectives of the Holocaust, but he was,…