The Lasting Significance of Etty Hillesum's Writings / / ed. by Klaas Smelik.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Nancy J.P.,; Arriero Peranton, Fernando,; Baccarini, Emilio,; Bergen, Lotte,; Brandt, Ria van den,; Bühler, Pierre,; Cartner, John,; Cherry, Stephen,; Clement, Marja,; Costa, Denise de,; Couto, Patricia,; Essunger, Maria,; Fasani, Laura,; Gomel, Sara,; Kallemeyn, Maribeth,; Lalonde, Marc P.,; Lincoln, Ulrich,; McDonough, William,; Morrill, Barbara,; Nagel, Alexandra H. M.,; Navarro Sánchez, Rosana E.,; Nocita, Maria Gabriella,; Peña Esquivel, William Augusto,; Ribeiro Ferreira, Maria Luísa,; Siertsema, Bettine,; Smelik, Klaas A. D.,; Wiersma, Jurjen,; Woodhouse, Patrick,; Zanardi, Lucrezia,
• HerausgeberIn: Smelik, Klaas,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (500 p.)

The Lasting Significance of Etty Hillesum's Writings contains the proceedings of the third international Etty Hillesum Conference, held in Middelburg in September 2018. It brings together the work of 33 experts from all over the world to shed new light on life, works, inspiration and vision of the Dutch Jewish writer Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), one of the victims of the Nazi regime. Hillesum's diaries and letters illustrate her heroic struggle to come to terms with her personal life in the context of the Holocaust. This volume revives Hillesum research with a comprehensive rereading of her texts but also by introducing new sources about her life. With the current rise of interest in peace studies, Judaism, the Holocaust, inter-religious dialogue, gender studies and mysticism, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars in a range of disciplines.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Music as Metaphor in Etty Hillesum's Spirituality -- A "staretz" in Camp Westerbork -- Etty Hillesum: Humanity as a Task -- Etty Hillesum & Albert Konrad Gemmeker -- "Now is the Time to Put into Practice: Love Your Enemies" -- The Cares of the Pagans -- Dialogizing Life amidst a Culture of Death -- Patience and Hope in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Etty Hillesum -- The Girl Who Could Not Kneel -- Etty Hillesum and Charlotte Salomon -- Wandering Beyond Words -- "Verbalize, Vocalize, Visualize" -- A "No" that Is an Affirmation -- From Enclosure to Disclosure -- A Story of Individuation in the Writings of Etty Hillesum -- Mad Midrash in the Diaries of Etty Hillesum -- The Mystery of Encounter -- Can Religion Help Heal a World Broken by Trauma? -- The Contours of These Times -- Etty Hillesum's Hand Analysis -- Suffering, Silence, and Wisdom in the Life of Etty Hillesum -- Feeding the Soul -- Am I Really a Woman? -- A Powerless God -- New Light on Etty Hillesum's Actions in Camp Westerbork -- "My Beloved Desk, the Best Place on this Earth" -- Etty Hillesum's Humanism -- Etty Hillesum's Struggle to See Clearly -- Present Traces of a Past Existence -- Etty Hillesum Bibliography -- Works on Etty Hillesum -- Index of Names and Subjects -- Index of Citations