The diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum (1914—1943) have a special place among the Jewish-Dutch testimonies of the Shoah, somuch so that Etty Hillesum studies has become its own field. This book offers the most important contributions from the pastfifteen years of international research into Hillesum’s work and life, studying her ethical, philosophical, spiritual, and literary existential search.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. A Short Biography of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943)
- The Diaries
- 2. To Remember Is to Act
- From a Bundle of Notebooks to a Worldwide Publication
- 3. Hineinhorchen and Writing
- The Language Use of Etty Hillesum
- War and Persecution
- 4. Etty Hillesum’s Choice Not to Go into Hiding
- 5. Agency within Nazi Constraints
- Etty Hillesum and Her Interpretation of the Jewish Fate
- 6. One Ought to Write a Chronicle of Westerbork
- 7. The Departure
- A Reconstruction of the Unexpected Deportation of the Hillesum Family From Camp Westerbork on Tuesday, 7 September 1943
- Reading and Writers
- 8. “Aesthetic Mirrors”
- Etty Hillesum and Rainer Maria Rilke
- 9. “I Keep Being Drawn towards Jung”
- Good and Evil in the Work of Etty Hillesum and Carl Gustav Jung
- 10. “To Realize That Life Is Truly Simple”
- Etty Hillesum and Walther Rathenau
- Family and Friends
- 11. Romance Down by The River IJssel
- The First Meeting between Etty Hillesum and Klaas Smelik Senior
- 12. Etty Hillesum, A Devoted Student of Julius Spier
- 13. “With You, I Have My Anchorage”
- Fifteen Letters From Etty Hillesum to Julius Spier
- Alexandra Nagel and Denise de Costa
- 14. “Three Times Yes and a Thousand Fold No!”
- Julius Spier Writes to Etty Hillesum
- Alexandra Nagel and Ria van den Brandt
- Reception of Hillesum’s Diaries and Letters
- 15. Etty Hillesum in Jewish Contexts
- 16. From Separation to Communitas
- Etty Hillesum, A Jewish Perspective
- 17. The Invincible Hope of Christian de Chergé and Etty Hillesum
- 18. Etty Hillesum
- Gender, the Modern and the Literature of the Holocaust
- 19. America in The Shade
- Etty Hillesum As Mediator Between the Cold War Perspectives on the Holocaust
- 20. Perceptions of Etty Hillesum in Japan
- 21. Saint, Cyber Phenomenon, Thinker, or Poet
- Etty Hillesum in Portugal
- 22. Bright Orange and Crimson
- How a Dutch Dissertation on Etty Hillesum Was Coloured by French Philosophy
- 23. Ulrich Beck and Etty Hillesum
- 24. Loving-Kindness, Hatred, and Moral Indignation
- Etty Hillesum and Vladimir Jankélévitch, Ordo amoris
- 25. A Woman’s All-Embracing Search of “the Other”
- Etty Hillesum as the Basis of a “Pedagogy of Care and Attention”
- Acknowledgements
- Index of Names and Subjects
- Index of Citations
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