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Author Etty Hillesum Conference (2008 : Ghent University, Belgium), author.

Title Spirituality in the writings of Etty Hillesum : proceedings of the Etty Hillesum Conference at Ghent University, November 2008 / edited by Klaas A.D. Smelik, Ria van den Brandt and Meins G.S. Coetsier ; with the assistance of Carolyn Coman, Debbie Pevenage and Gerrit Van Oord
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 490 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy, 1873-9008 ; v. 11
Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; v. 11.
Contents A short biograph of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) / Klaus A.D. Smelik -- The Roots of the Chaos and the Process of Change in Etty Hillesum / Canon Patrick Woodhouse -- Etty Hillesum and Julius Spier: A "Spierituality" on the Fringe of Religious Borders / Alexandra Pleshoyano -- Etty Hillesum and Her God / Klaas A.D. Smelik -- "You-Consciousness" : Towards Political Theory: Etty Hillesum's Experience and Symbolization of the Divine Presence / Meins G.S. Coetsier -- Foundations for a Judgment of the Holocaust: Etty Hillesum's Standard of Humanity / Brendan Purcell -- Etty Hillesum's Russian Vocation and Spiritual Relationship to Dostoevsky / Wil van den Bercken -- Etty Hillesum, an "Atypical" Mystic / Francesca Brezzi -- The Reception of Etty Hillesum's Writings in French Language / Paul Lebeau -- Etty Hillesum and Her "Catholic Worshippers" : A Plea for a More Critical Approach to Etty Hillesum's Writings / Rita van den Brandt -- -- Etty Hillesum: A Portrait of a Holocaust Artist / Rachel Feldhay Brenner -- "There was Little of that Harmonious Rolling out of God's Hand" : Struggle and Balance in the Diaries of Etty Hillesum / Debbie Pevenge -- Etty Hillesum: "écriture féminine?" / Denise De Costa -- Feeling Life: Etty Hillesum Becomes Word / Maria Gabriella Nocita -- Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) and Abel Herzberg (1893-1989): Two Dutch Chroniclers of the Shoah / Bettine Sierstema -- Two Voices from Westerbork: Etty Hillesum and Philip Mechanicus on the Transport from Camp Westerbork on 24 August 1943 / Gerrit Van Oord -- Witnesses and Victims of Massacre: The Literary Testimony of Samuel Usque and Etty Hillesum / Patricia Couto -- Let's Talk About Hope! Etty Hillesum's Future-Perspective "We may Suffer, But We Must not Succumb" / Manja Pach -- Context, Dilemmas, and Misunderstandings During the Composition and Publication of an Interrupted Life: Etty Hillesum's Diary, 1941-1943 / Jan Geurt Gaarlandt -- Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Works of Etty Hillesum / Fulvio C. Manara -- Why is Etty Hillesum a Great Thinker? / Maria Filomena Molder -- Etty Hillesum's Psychological and Spiritual Path: Towards an Ethics of Responsibility / Nadia Neri -- The Road of Etty Hillesum to Nothingness / Frits Grimmelikhuizen
Summary Drawing on Etty Hillesum's writings, this book offers a comprehensive account of international scholarship on the life, works and vision of the Dutch Jewish writer Etty Hillesum, whose life was shaped by the totalitarian Nazi-regime, and who lived a courageous spirituality in the darkest period of the twentieth century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-464) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Hillesum, Etty, 1914-1943 -- Religion -- Congresses
Hillesum, Etty, 1914-1943 -- Correspondence -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Hillesum, Etty, 1914-1943 -- Diaries -- History and criticism -- Congresses
SUBJECT Hillesum, Etty, 1914-1943 fast
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Netherlands -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Spiritual life -- Judaism -- Congresses
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Netherlands -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism -- Congresses
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
Letters
Diaries
Religion
Spiritual life -- Judaism
Netherlands
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Hillesum, Etty, 1914-1943.
Smelik, K. A. D., 1950- editor.
Brandt, Ria van den, 1960- edit. r.
Coetsier, Meins G. S., editor.
ISBN 9789004188594
9004188592