*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.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Music as Metaphor in Etty Hillesum’s Spirituality
- A “staretz” in Camp Westerbork
- The Connections Between Slavic Orthodoxy and the Spirituality of Etty Hillesum
- Fernando Arriero Peranton
- Etty Hillesum: Humanity as a Task
- Etty Hillesum & Albert Konrad Gemmeker
- A Twofold Analysis of the Perpetration of the Westerbork Commander
- Lotte Bergen
- “Now is the Time to Put into Practice: Love Your Enemies”
- Several Notes on Hillesum’s “Love for Enemies” in Levenskunst
- Ria van den Brandt
- The Cares of the Pagans
- The Reading of Matthew 6:25-34 by Søren Kierkegaard and Etty Hillesum
- Pierre Bühler
- Dialogizing Life amidst a Culture of Death
- Etty Hillesum, Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor and Nazi Reductionism
- John Cartner
- Patience and Hope in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Etty Hillesum
- The Girl Who Could Not Kneel
- Etty Hillesum and the Turn Inward
- Marja Clement
- Etty Hillesum and Charlotte Salomon
- Pregnancy as a Theme in Their Lives and Works
- Denise de Costa
- Wandering Beyond Words
- Etty Hillesum and Clarice Lispector
- Patricia Couto
- “Verbalize, Vocalize, Visualize”
- Creative Death and Performative Writing in the Testimonies of Hillesum and Levi
- Maria Essunger
- A “No” that Is an Affirmation
- Etty Hillesum and Simone Weil Against the Laws of Force
- Laura Fasani
- From Enclosure to Disclosure
- Images of the Self in Etty Hillesum’s Diary
- Sara Gomel
- A Story of Individuation in the Writings of Etty Hillesum
- A Jungian Perspective
- Maribeth Kallemeyn
- Mad Midrash in the Diaries of Etty Hillesum
- The Mystery of Encounter
- Poetry and Faith After Auschwitz in the Work of Paul Celan and Etty Hillesum
- Ulrich Lincoln
- Can Religion Help Heal a World Broken by Trauma?
- Etty Hillesum as Our Ancestor in the Qahal Goyim
- William McDonough
- The Contours of These Times
- Etty Hillesum as Chronicler of Love Transcending Hate in Her Times, for Our Time, for All Time
- Barbara Morrill
- Etty Hillesum’s Hand Analysis
- The Prologue to Her Diaries
- Alexandra H.M. Nagel
- Suffering, Silence, and Wisdom in the Life of Etty Hillesum
- Rosana E. Navarro Sánchez
- Feeding the Soul
- Etty Hillesum’s Pedagogical and Spiritual Path
- Maria Gabriella Nocita
- Am I Really a Woman?
- A Question About Female Identity in Etty Hillesum
- William Augusto Peña Esquivel
- A Powerless God
- Etty Hillesum and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Maria Luísa Ribeiro Ferreira
- New Light on Etty Hillesum’s Actions in Camp Westerbork
- “My Beloved Desk, the Best Place on this Earth”
- Etty Hillesum Says Goodbye to Her Familiar Surroundings
- Klaas A.D. Smelik
- Etty Hillesum’s Humanism
- Ethical, Philosophical and Theological Comments
- Jurjen Wiersma
- Etty Hillesum’s Struggle to See Clearly
- A Story of Two Worlds
- Patrick Woodhouse
- Present Traces of a Past Existence
- Through the Lens of Photography
- Lucrezia Zanardi
- Etty Hillesum Bibliography
- Works on Etty Hillesum
- Index of Names and Subjects
- Index of Citations
- List of Illustrations
- Figure 1 Last page of the 11th diary
- Figure 2 Report of the hand analysis of Etty Hillesum, 3 February 1941
- Figure 3 The handprints of Etty Hillesum, 3 February 1941
- Figure 4 Portrait of Etty Hillesum in her room next to pictures of favouriteauthors, ca 1937
- Figure 5 Etty Hillesum sitting at her desk, ca 1939
- Figure 6 The Moroccan girl
- Figure 7 The sun lounge
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