Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed

Author: Patrick Woodhouse
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408183471
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
On 8 March 1941, a 27-year-old Jewish Dutch student living in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam made the first entry in a diary that was to become one of the most remarkable documents to emerge from the Nazi Holocaust. Over the course of the next two and a half years, an insecure, chaotic and troubled young woman was transformed into someone who inspired those with whom she shared the suffering of the transit camp at Westerbork and with whom she eventually perished at Auschwitz. Through her diary and letters, she continues to inspire those whose lives she has touched since. She was an extraordinarily alive and vivid young woman who shaped and lived a spirituality of hope in the darkest period of the twentieth century. This book explores Etty Hillesum's life and writings, seeking to understand what it was about her that was so remarkable, how her journey developed, how her spirituality was shaped, and what her profound reflections on the roots of violence and the nature of evil can teach us today.

Etty

Author: Etty Hillesum
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802839596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 862

Book Description
In the midst of the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust, Etty's writings reveal a young Jewish woman who celebrated life and remained an undaunted example of courage, sympathy, and compassion. Through this splendid translation by Arnold J. Pomerans, commissioned by the Etty Hillesum Foundation, readers everywhere will resonate with the spirit of this amazing young woman.

Etty Hillesum

Author: Etty Hillesum
Publisher: Modern Spiritual Masters
ISBN: 9781570758386
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), a young Dutch Jewish woman, died in Auschwitz at the age of 29. This volume, drawn from her letters and diaries, lays out the themes of her distinctive and inspiring spiritual vision.

An Interrupted Life

Author: Etty Hillesum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780953478057
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 430

Book Description
A collection of the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum (1914-43) who lived in Amsterdam that were composed in the shadow of the Holocaust, but their interest lies in the light-filled mind that pervades them and in the internal journey they chart.

An Interrupted Life

Author: Etty Hillesum
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 9780805048940
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
Diaries describe the Nazi occupation

The Lasting Significance of Etty Hillesum's Writings

Author: Klaas Smelik
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9048550173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 501

Book Description
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.

Is Faith Delusion?

Author: Andrew Sims
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847063403
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
How, in a scientifically and technologically advanced age, can people still believe in God? Andrew Sims examines both the connection and the division between Christian faith and psychiatry.

Through the Narrow Gate, Revised

Author: Karen Armstrong
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312340957
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
"Read and cherished by thousands all over the world since it was first published in 1981, Through the Narrow Gate takes the reader on a spiritual journey that began one September day in 1962 when Karen Armstrong said good-bye to her family at London's King's Cross station and journeyed on to the convent in Tripton to become a nun. Through the Narrow Gate is by turns a book of spiritual revelation and an intimate look at life inside the cloistered walls of the convent."--BOOK JACKET.

What is the Point of Being a Christian?

Author: Timothy Radcliffe
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780860123699
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Timothy Radcliffe is in demand the world over with Bishops, priests, lay people and above all young people. This new book is his response.

Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Author: Planaria Price
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374305293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
Gucia Gomolinska grew up comfortably in Piotrkow, Poland, a devoted student, sister, daughter, and friend. Still, even in the years before World War II, she faced discrimination as a Jew--but with her ash-blond hair she was often able to pass as just another Pole. When her town was invaded by Nazis, she knew her Aryan coloring gave her an advantage, and she faced an awful choice: stay in the place she had always called home, or leave behind everything she knew to try to survive. She took on a new identity as Basia Tanska, and her journey led her directly into Nazi Germany. Planaria Price, along with Basia's daughter Helen West, tells this incredible life story directly in the first person. Claiming My Place is a stunning portrayal of bravery, love, loss, and the power of storytelling.