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