Vera Stein Ehrlich

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Vera Stein Ehrlich (Zagreb, 4 October 1897 - Zagreb, 31 August 1980) was a Yugoslav social anthropologist of Croatian descent who gave a significant scientific contribution to the development of anthropology and sociology in Yugoslavia and, later, Croatia.

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Early life and career Vera Stein Ehrlich was born on 4 October 1897 in Zagreb to Adolf and Ida Ehrlich. She grew up in Zagreb with her younger sister Ina Jun-Broda (1899-1983) who later become notable writer and translator. She studied pedagogy and psychology in Berlin and Vienna. At the age of 19, she began publishing works on psychological and pedagogic problems. In 1933, 1934, and 1936, she published books on the issues of education of children and youth. As part of the fifteen studies conducted in those years, she was writing about the methods and meaning of drawing and books for children. Her paper on the impact of illness on the character of the child was a result of cooperation with her husband Dr. Ben Stein. At that time, Ehrlich was particularly concerned with individual psychology, probably influenced by the achievements of Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler to whom she wrote an obituary in the "Jew", Gazette of the Jewish Community of Zagreb. In that same period, she became interested in the problem of the position of women in the Yugoslav society. She was among the first to start discussing these issues scientifically in order to encourage the change of…Citește mai mult

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Later work By the beginning of the Second World War, Ehrlich belonged to a group of prominent advanced Yugoslav intellectuals. After Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, she fled to Split where she joined Yugoslav Partisans. During the Holocaust, the Ustaše killed Ehrlich's husband Ben Stein and nephew Aleksandar Savić. After the war, she gained Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at University of California, where she also lectured on the anthropology of Croats and South Slavs from 1952 to 1960. In the United States, she was a close associate of American anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber. She considered collaboration with him and Robert Lowie an important incentive which helped her grow into a good social anthropologist. She considered their influence to be crucial for her acceptance of the anthropological discoveries she approached earlier in her pre-war studies. After her return to SFR Yugoslavia, she lectured social anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb. During that time, she studied the position of women in traditional societies and transformation of a rural family. In her post-war work, Ehrlich developed the evolutionary phases of the relationship and structure of rural families, analyzing the…Citește mai mult

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Publications Kolektivni rad u suvremenoj školi [Collective Work in Contemporary School], Minerva, 1933 Metoda Montessori u školi [Montessori Method at School], Minerva, 1934 Individualna psihologija u školskoj praksi [Individual Psychology in School Practice], Minerva, 1934 Današnje dijete: problemi savremenog odgoja [Today's Child: Problems of Contemporary Education], Izdanje Atlas nakladnog zavoda, 1936 Obitelj u transformaciji: studija u tri stotine jugoslavenskih sela [Family in Transformation: Study in Three Hundred Yugoslav Villages], Naprijed, 1964 U društvu s čovjekom: tragom njegovih kulturnih i socijalnih tekovina [In Society with Man: The Trace of Its Cultural and Social Effects], Naprijed, 1968 Family in Transition: A Study of 300 Yugoslav Villages, Princeton University Press, 1966

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Literature Romano, Jaša (1980). Jevreji Jugoslavije 1941-1945: žrtve genocida i učesnici narodnooslobodilačkog rata, Beograd: Jevrejski Istorijski Muzej, Saveza jevrejskih opština Jugoslavije.