Reading Etty Hillesum in Context

Reading Etty Hillesum in Context: Writings, Life, and Influences of a Visionary Author

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

1. A Short Biography of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), Klaas A.D. Smelik

The Diaries

1. To Remember Is to Act: From a Bundle of Notebooks to a Worldwide Publication, Klaas A.D. Smelik
2. Hineinhorchen and Writing: The Language Use of Etty Hillesum, Marja Clement

War and Persecution

1. Etty Hillesum’s Choice Not to Go into Hiding, Klaas A.D. Smelik
2. Agency within Nazi Constraints: Etty Hillesum and Her Interpretation of the Jewish Fate, Lotte Bergen
3. One Ought to Write a Chronicle of Westerbork: Jurjen Wiersma
4. The Departure: A Reconstruction of the Unexpected Deportation of the Hillesum Family From Camp Westerbork on Tuesday,
5. September 1943, Gerrit Van Oord

Reading and Writers

1. “Aesthetic Mirrors”: Etty Hillesum and Rainer Maria Rilke, Meins G.S. Coetsier
2. “I Keep Being Drawn towards Jung” : Good and Evil in the Work of Etty Hillesum and Carl Gustav Jung, Janny van der Molen
3. “To Realize That Life Is Truly Simple” : Etty Hillesum and Walther Rathenau, Jurjen Wiersma

Family and Friends

1. Romance Down by The River IJssel: The First Meeting between Etty Hillesum and Klaas Smelik Senior, Klaas A.D. Smelik
2. Etty Hillesum, A Devoted Student of Julius Spier, Alexandra H.M. Nagel
3. “With You, I Have My Anchorage” : Fifteen Letters From Etty Hillesum to Julius Spier, Alexandra Nagel and Denise de Costa
4. “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

1. Etty Hillesum in Jewish Contexts, Piet Schrijvers
2. From Separation to Communitas: Etty Hillesum, A Jewish Perspective, Thalia Gur-Klein
3. The Invincible Hope of Christian de Chergé and Etty Hillesum, Yves Bériault
4. Etty Hillesum : Gender, the Modern and the Literature of the Holocaust, Mary Evans
5. America in The Shade : Etty Hillesum As Mediator Between the Cold War Perspectives on the Holocaust, Hans Krabbendam
6. Perceptions of Etty Hillesum in Japan, Yukiko Yokohata
7. Saint, Cyber Phenomenon, Thinker, or Poet : Etty Hillesum in Portugal, Patricia Couto
8. Bright Orange and Crimson : How a Dutch Dissertation on Etty Hillesum Was Coloured by French Philosophy, Denise de Costa
9. Ulrich Beck and Etty Hillesum, Klaas A.D. Smelik
10. Loving-Kindness, Hatred, and Moral Indignation : Etty Hillesum and Vladimir Jankélévitch, Ordo amoris, Ronald Commers
11. A Woman’s All-Embracing Search of “the Other” : Etty Hillesum as the Basis of a “Pedagogy of Care and Attention”, Anna Aluffi Pentini

Notes by Reading Etty Hillesum in Context

• It was published in 2018 by the Amsterdam University Press. See this Link.