Contents
Preface
Introduction
Klaas A.D. Smelik,
A Short Biography of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943)
The Diaries
Klaas A.D. Smelik,
To Remember Is To Act: From a Bundle of Notebooks to a Worldwide Publication
Marja Clement,
'Hineinhorchen' and Writing: The Language Use of Etty Hillesum
War and Persecution
Klaas A.D. Smelik,
Etty Hillesum's Choice Not To Go Into Hiding
Lotte Bergen,
Agency Within Nazi Constraints: Etty Hillesum and Her Interpretation of the Jewish Fate
Jurjen Wiersma,
One Ought To Write a Chronicle of Westerbork
Gerrit Van Oord,
The Departure: A Reconstruction of the Unexpected Deportation of the Hillesum Family From Camp Westerbork on Tuesday 7 September 1943
Reading and Writers
Meins G.S. Coetsier,
"Aesthetic Mirrors": Etty Hillesum and Rainer Maria Rilke
Janny van der Molen,
"I Keep Being Drawn Towards Jung": Good and Evil in the Work of Etty Hillesum and Carl Gustav Jung
Jurjen Wiersma,
"To Realize That Life Is Truly Simple": Etty Hillesum and Walther Rathenau
Family and Friends
Klaas A.D. Smelik,
Romance Down By The River IJssel: The First Meeting Between Etty Hillesum and Klaas Smelik Senior
Alexandra Nagel,
Etty Hillesum, A Devoted Student of Julius Spier.
Alexandra Nagel & Denise de Costa,
With You, I Have My Anchorage: Fifteen Letters From Etty Hillesum to Julius Spier
Alexandra Nagel & Ria van den Brandt,
Three Times Yes and a Thousand Fold No! Julius Spier Writes to Etty Hillesum
Reception of Hillesum's Diaries and Letters
Piet Schrijvers,
Etty Hillesum in Jewish Contexts
Thalia Gur-Klein,
From Separation to Communitas: Etty Hillesum, A Jewish Perspective
Yves Bériault,
The Invincible Hope of Christian de Chergé and Etty Hillesum
Mary Evans,
Etty Hillesum: Gender, the Modern and the Literature of the Holocaust
Hans Krabbendam,
America in the Shade: Etty Hillesum As Mediator Between the Cold-War Perspectives on the Holocaust
Yukiko Yokohata,
Perceptions of Etty Hillesum in Japan
Patricia Couto,
Thinker, Poet, Cyber Phenomenon, or Saint: Etty Hillesum in Portugal.
Denise de Costa,
Bright Orange and Crimson: How a Dutch Dissertation on Etty Hillesum Was Coloured by French Philosophy
Klaas A.D. Smelik,
Ulrich Beck and Etty Hillesum
Ronald Commers,
Loving-Kindness, Hatred, and Moral Indignation: Etty Hillesum and Vladimir Jankélévitch, Ordo Amoris
Anna Aluffi Pentini,
A Woman's All-Embracing Search of "the Other": Etty Hillesum as the Basis of a "Pedagogy of Care and Attention"
Summaries
Personalia
Acknowledgements