Levéltári Közlemények, 88. (2017)

Levéltári kutatások - módszertan és gyakorlat - Czeferner Dóra: A New York-i Schwimmer Rózsa-hagyaték jelentősége

DÓRA C

ZEFERNER

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ROSIKA SCHWIMMER PAPERS IN NEW YORK How did a female clerk, Rosika Schwimmer (or Bédy-Schwimmer/Schwimmer Rózsa as she is better-known in the Hungarian historiography; 1877, Budapest–

1948, New York) coming from a Jewish family become the secretary of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (1904, Berlin)? What kind of difficulties did she as a provincial woman had to face with so that she would be able to become a well-known journalist in the Hungarian and in the international press during the first decade of the 20th

century, when this profession was still highly dominated by

male publicists? Why was it unique that she as a determined feminist and peace activist managed to make a living from her journalistic honorary and from the large sums of money she earned during her extended lecture tours around the old continent and in the United States? Along which principles did they start the publication of the first national feminist journal titled The Woman and the Society

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Nő és a Társadalom] in 1907?

In the paper, I seek answers to these questions on the bases of the newlyresearched sources of the Rosika Schwimmer Papers (592 boxes, 160 linear feet, almost 50 linear meter), preserved in the New York Public Library.

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