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Reading Etty Hillesum in context : writings, life, and influences of a visionary author / Klaas Smelik, Gerrit Van Oord, Jurjen Wiersma.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hillesum, Etty, 1914-1943.
- Hillesum, Etty.
- Holocaust victims--Netherlands.
- Holocaust victims.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jews.
- Diaries.
- Netherlands.
- Jews--Netherlands--Diaries.
- Jews--Netherlands--Correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- 524 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- The diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) have a special place among the Jewish-Dutch testimonies of the Shoah, so much so that Etty Hillesum studies has become its own field. This book offers the most important contributions from the past fifteen years of international research into Hillesum?s work and life, studying her ethical, philosophical, spiritual, and literary existential search.
- Contents:
- 1 A Short Biography of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) / Klaas A.D. Smelik Smelik, Klaas A.D. 23
- The Diaries
- 2 To Remember Is to Act 33
- From a Bundle of Notebooks to a Worldwide Publication / Klaas A.D. Smelik Smelik, Klaas A.D.
- 3 Hineinhorchen and Writing 51
- The Language Use of Etty Hillesum / Marja Clement Clement, Marja
- War and Persecution
- 4 Etty Hillesum's Choice Not to Go into Hiding / Klaas A.D. Smelik Smelik, Klaas A.D. 81
- 5 Agency within Nazi Constraints 103
- Etty Hillesum and Her Interpretation of the Jewish Fate / Lotte Bergen Bergen, Lotte
- 6 One Ought to Write a Chronicle of Westerbork / Jurjen Wiersma Wiersma, Jurjen 143
- 7 The Departure 157
- A Reconstruction of the Unexpected Deportation of the Hillesum Family From Camp Westerbork on Tuesday, 7 September 1943 / Gerrit Van Oord Oord, Gerrit Van
- Reading and Writers
- 8 "Aesthetic Mirrors" 183
- Etty Hillesum and Rainer Maria Rilke / Meins G.S. Coetsier Coetsier, Meins G.S.
- 9 "I Keep Being Drawn towards Jung" 227
- Good and Evil in the Work of Etty Hillesum and Carl Gustav Jung / Janny van der Molen Molen, Janny van der
- 10 "To Realize That Life Is Truly Simple" 245
- Etty Hillesum and Walther Rathenau / Jurjen Wiersma Wiersma, Jurjen
- Family and Friends
- 11 Romance Down by The River Ijssel 259
- The First Meeting between Etty Hillesum and Klaas Smelik Senior / Klaas A.D. Smelik Smelik, Klaas A.D.
- 12 Etty Hillesum, A Devoted Student of Julius Spier / Alexandra H.M. Nagel Nagel, Alexandra H.M. 273
- 13 "With You, I Have My Anchorage" 285
- Fifteen Letters From Etty Hillesum to Julius Spier / Alexandra Nagel Nagel, Alexandra, Denise de Costa Costa, Denise de
- 14 "Three Times Yes and a Thousand Fold No!" 303
- Julius Spier Writes to Etty Hillesum / Alexandra Nagel Nagel, Alexandra, Ria van den Brandt Brandt, Ria van den 303
- Reception of Hillesum's Diaries and Letters
- 15 Etty Hillesum in Jewish Contexts / Piet Schrijvers Schrijvers, Piet 315
- 16 From Separation to Communitas Etty Hillesum, A Jewish Perspective / Thalia Gur-Klein Gur-Klein, Thalia 333
- 17 The Invincible Hope of Christian de Chergé and Etty Hillesum / Yves Bériault Bériault, Yves 361
- 18 Etty Hillesum 371
- Gender, the Modern and the Literature of the Holocaust / Mary Evans Evans, Mary
- 19 America in The Shade 379
- Etty Hillesum As Mediator Between the Cold War Perspectives on the Holocaust / Hans Krabbendam Krabbendam, Hans 379
- 20 Perceptions of Etty Hillesum in Japan / Yukiko Yokohata Yokohata, Yukiko 395
- 21 Saint, Cyber Phenomenon, Thinker, or Poet Etty Hillesum in Portugal / Patricia Couto Couto, Patricia 419
- 22 Bright Orange and Crimson
- How a Dutch Dissertation on Etty Hillesum Was Coloured by French Philosophy / Denise de Costa Costa, Denise de 431
- 23 Ulrich Beck and Etty Hillesum / Klaas A.D. Smelik Smelik, Klaas A.D. 445
- 24 Loving-Kindness, Hatred, and Moral Indignation 459
- Etty Hillesum and Vladimir Jankélévitch, Ordo amoris / Ronald Commers Commers, Ronald
- 25 A Woman's All-Embracing Search of "the Other" 479
- Etty Hillesum as the Basis of a "Pedagogy of Care and Attention" / Anna Aluffi Pentini Pentini, Anna Aluffi.
- Notes:
- Original publication details for individual chapters: pages 501-504.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Electronic version: 9789048533428
- ISBN:
- 9789462983441
- 9462983445
- OCLC:
- 1019655474
- Publisher Number:
- 99976963945
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