Postmemory of School Photos Taken of Piroska Lázár’s Girls’ Grammar School

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Published: Aug 23, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14232/tntef.2023.1.1-23
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School photos, gaze, cultural memory, Piroska Lázár, female Jewish pupils

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Judit Gera
ELTE
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2935-1093

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School group pictures are rarely taken seriously as a subject for scientific analysis. Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer's School Photos in Liquid Time. Reframing Difference (2020) is an exception. They analyze school images from extreme historical periods, asking questions such as: what is the function of these images? How many different gazes can be distinguished? How can we "read" school photos? It is in the context of questions like these that I recall an undeservedly forgotten teacher, Piroska Lázár (1882–1944), whose girls' grammar school during the first half of the twentieth century in Budapest was a place of learning mainly for Jewish girls in an increasingly restricted political and cultural space.

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Gera, Judit. 2023. “Postmemory of School Photos Taken of Piroska Lázár’s Girls’ Grammar School”. Interdisciplinary EJournal of Gender Studies 13 (1):1-23. https://doi.org/10.14232/tntef.2023.1.1-23.
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Vol. 13 No. 1 (2023)
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Judit Gera, ELTE

Gera, Judit (1954) Professor emerita, literary translator. She tought and did research for 38 years at the Department of Dutch Studies of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Her research interests include modern Dutch-language literature, interrelations between literature and painting, postcolonial and gender theories, cultural memory, holocaust studies and cultural transfer. In 1999, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands awarded her the Order of Orange-Nassau for her achievements in the field of Dutch-Hungarian cultural relations. In 2001, she was awarded the Dutch Martinus Nijhoff Prize, the most prestigious prize for literary translation in the Netherlands. Some of her most important publications include: Inleiding in de literatuurgeschiedenis voor de internationale neerlandistiek [Introduction to Literary History for International Netherlandists] (with A. Agnes Sneller) Hilversum: Verloren 2010, Structures of Subjugation in Dutch Literature. Oxford: Legenda, 2016. History of Dutch literature in Hungarian, (with Anikó Daróczi, Gábor Pusztai and Orsolya Réthelyi) Budapest: Osiris 2022 and Plezier in poëzie [The Pleasure of Poetry] (with Jos Kleemans) Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univerity Press 2022. She is currently working on a biography of the Dutch writer Marga Minco.