The Muselmann at the water cooler / / Eli Pfefferkorn.

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.

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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.
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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.