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Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork

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ISBN13: 9780805050875
ISBN10: 0805050876
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For the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible gallantry were themselves a form of inner resistance. The adult counterpart to Anne Frank, Hillesum testifies to the possibility of awareness and compassion in the face of the most devastating challenge to one's humanity. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine.

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"A marvelous gift." Terence Des Pres

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"Remarkable....What made life meaningful to Etty was the rare combination of erotic, spiritual, and intellectual passion that made up her 'thinking heart.' A truly great book." Washington Post Book World

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"Unsurpassed in Holocaust literature." The New York Times Book Review

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"A story of spiriual growth such as I have seldom seen anywhere, written with the interior richness and woven design of a Jamesian novel....A marvelous gift." Terence Des Pres, The New York Times Book Review

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"A stunning achievement of the human spirit." San Francisco Chronicle

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"Etty Hillesum's diaries represent the essence of the human spirit — the indomitability of hope." The Philadelphia Inquirer

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"An unusual book that I read at once with unusual interest: such a tender, sensitive creature." Primo Levi

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"Etty Hillesum could be a contemporary liberated woman beset by traditional and untraditional perplexities about marriage, career, love, sex....She is an exuberant celebrant of life." Marie Syrkin, The New Republic
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John Marquez, July 12, 2008 (view all comments by John Marquez)
We read this book in a class I took on mysticism. In the face of Nazi atrocities, Etty embarks on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery and discovery of God, a journey of nothing less than radical transformation. She wrestles mightily with questions of suffering and justice. A fragmentary and moving record of a beautiful life.
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In these times of political corrouption, endless war and diminished social fairness the diaries of a young woman living in Nazi Occupied Holland offer some strange comfort to me. Etty Hillesum held onto hope and light in the midst of the unimagnable. She was able to touch people with genuine love. Her writing shines on the page.
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ISBN:
9780805050875
Subtitle:
An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork
Foreword:
Hoffman, Eva
Introduction:
Hoffman, Eva
Foreword:
Hoffman, Eva
Author:
Hillesum, Etty
Introduction:
Hoffman, Eva
Publisher:
Henry Holt & Company
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Jews
Subject:
Holocaust
Subject:
Historical - Holocaust
Subject:
Netherlands
Subject:
Autobiography
Subject:
Holocaust, jewish
Subject:
Netherlands Ethnic relations.
Subject:
Jews -- Netherlands -- Biography.
Subject:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Netherlands.
Copyright:
1996
Series Volume:
SP-520
Publication Date:
November 1996
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
384
Dimensions:
8.42x5.54x1.10 in. .85 lbs.
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