The Muselmann at the water cooler / / Eli Pfefferkorn.

• VerfasserIn: Pfefferkorn, Eli,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Academic Studies Press,, [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 219 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

A survivor of concentration camps and the Death March, Eli Pfefferkorn looks back on his Holocaust and post-Holocaust experiences to compare patterns of human behavior in extremis with those of ordinary life.

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Preface -- Glossary -- In the Beginning there was Bread and Freedom and Apathy -- One or Two? -- A Journey Back in Time -- Quo Vadis? -- The Amphibian Feet and the Soprano Voice -- Three Levels of Knowing -- Getting High on Zinger Tea -- Carrying the Armband Jude -- A Tom Sawyer Adventure -- Caught in the Web -- From the Armband to the Yellow Triangle -- A World that Has to be Imagined to Make it Real -- A Mother Mourning her Children -- The Plasticity of Human Nature -- Dodging the Muselmann's Netherworld Virtual Reality -- Beware the Yellowish-Green Colour -- Irena - My Willowy Sister -- Protecting my Lebensraum -- Looking into the Pistol's Muzzle -- Mottos Reflecting the Shifting Situations -- The Messiah is Nigh -- The Predator Matrons -- Jedem das Seine - To Each his Own -- The Bond and the Rule -- April is the Cruellest Month -- Latter-Day Messiahs Have Come -- Death Stalking Life -- At the Birth of a Dream -- My Initiation into Scooping Humus -- The Schnitzel Riddle -- Israel and I - An Uneasy Co-Existence The Sabra Model -- The Other -- The New Day's Rhythm -- The Temptation of the Cross -- Harold Fisch - My Patron Saint -- A Subject of Interest -- The Lure of the London Stage -- Humouring the Jewish Agency -- The Fateful Sukkah Meeting -- My Brother - Yusuf -- In the Aftermath of the Six-Day War -- A Critic at Large -- Kosher Style -- Black Cats versus White Cats -- An Immodest Proposal -- Hosanna -- Chomsky and I -- From Providence to the Holy Land -- The Yom Kippur War -- Touching the Past with Dieter -- Pfefferkorn versus the State of Israel -- The Latter-Day Hellenists -- Imitatio Dei -- The Bitburg Offence to Memory -- The Water Cooler Metaphor -- In Image and Word -- The Life of Pi -- My Secret Garden -- Speak No Evil of Man: He, Himself, is Testimony to It -- The Lost Generation -- Index.