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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…mehr
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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.
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- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Seitenzahl: 176
- Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 238g
- ISBN-13: 9781472972132
- ISBN-10: 1472972139
- Artikelnr.: 55487689
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Seitenzahl: 176
- Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 238g
- ISBN-13: 9781472972132
- ISBN-10: 1472972139
- Artikelnr.: 55487689
Patrick Woodhouse is a writer and Anglican priest. He was for thirteen years a Canon of Wells Cathedral. He has also been a parish priest, and a social responsibility adviser in two Anglican dioceses. He is the author of Etty Hillesum, a Life Transformed (Bloomsbury Continuum 2009). He lives in Somerset.
Introduction
Why the diary and letters of this inspirational young woman who died in the
Holocaust are of such significance and speak beyond her own time and
context
Who was Etty Hillesum?
brief biographical outline, and the background and chronology of her life
Chapter 1: An Emerging Self
Explores the process of profound personal change that occurred in Etty.
Within her intimate relationship with her therapist Julius Spier she
grappled with the chaotic complexity of her intense personality against the
background of her disturbed family and fearful times, and moved from an
insecure and depressive past towards an integrated self. It examines her
relationship with Spier and his crucial importance in enabling her to
change.
Chapter 2: Discovering God
This chapter explores the beginnings of Etty's spirituality, looking at how
understandings of prayer and God slowly took root and grew in her, her
formation as the child of a liberal Jewish background, her secular student
days and the gradual development of her contemplative life. It touches on
her surprise and embarrassment at her strongly emerging religious
consciousness -- a deep sense of the intimate life of God within. As she
faced up to her own end and the destruction of her people, the realisation
dawned upon her that God was unable to help them and so, she says, 'they
must help Him' and, if they are to retain their integrity as human beings
'guard his Presence within them at all costs'. This chapter explores how
this insight, with its profound theological significance, connects with
understandings of God in the Christian and other traditions.
Chapter 3: Refusing to hate
Etty wrote a lot about hatred. This chapter looks at her refusal to hate
and goes on to explore the phenomenon of hatred and its function in the
collective mind of a persecuted people -- how it galvanises and unites,
helping people to cope with their fear, but is ultimately an avoidance and
displacement mechanism which Etty believed was profoundly destructive.
Determined to hate "only the evil that is within me", Etty wrote of what it
meant to bear fear and suffering, absorbing and accepting it rather than
turning it back on those causing it. This understanding produced some of
her most profound writing and makes her a universal figure, able to
identify with all who suffer, including 'German mothers for they too sorrow
for their slain and murdered sons'.
Chapter 4: Losing her life
As the persecutions intensified, many Jews clung to life and struggled to
avoid their destruction. Along with her refusal to hate, Etty refused to
hide or to evade what she saw coming. Her clear-eyed acceptance of the end
and her refusal to clutch at illusions grew out of her commitment to truth
and to living in the present rather than in fear of the future. "It sounds
paradoxical," she wrote, "but by excluding death from our life we cannot
live a full life... and by admitting death into our life we enlarge and
enrich it." This chapter reflects on this paradox and its place in other
religious traditions.
Chapter 5: Seeing Differently
Etty's greatest fear was that she would sleep-walk into death, that
numbness would overcome her. Her triumph was to show that the reality of
the Holocaust -- the power of a terrible hatred against the Jews -- was not
the only or final reality. She saw and lived from other realities in the
midst of the hell around her and in the end was neither captive to, nor
overwhelmed by the darkness. This chapter goes to the heart of the paradox
that enabled her -- surrounded by death -- to be a source of care and
compassion for others and to continue to insist that life was meaningful
and beautiful and, as she set out on her final journey to Auschwitz, to
"leave the camp singing".
Chapter 6: A woman for our time
At a time of decline in institutional religion, Etty is a curiously modern
person. Her route into spirituality is initially through psychotherapy and
the exploration of the self. She sees the world through the prism of the
person: systems of thought claiming 'the truth' inevitably contain
falsehood and divide people. Suspicious of religious or political ideology,
she sees the struggle for peace and a new world rooted in personal change.
She is ecumenical in the widest sense, bridging the differences between
religions. She was a Jew who drew inspiration from the New Testament, from
St Augustine, from Russian writers, from Jung and above all from Rilke. She
forged a spirituality that connects and resonates with aspects from all the
great religious traditions -- not only Judaism and Christianity, but also
Buddhism and Hinduism. She lived and died at a time of mass violence. Her
diaries and letters are an extended reflection on what it means to be fully
human in the midst of violence and the temptations of violence, and she
looks beyond the violence of her time to a new world. At a time of fear of
terrorism, and mass violence in response to that fear, her writing is very
contemporary.
Why the diary and letters of this inspirational young woman who died in the
Holocaust are of such significance and speak beyond her own time and
context
Who was Etty Hillesum?
brief biographical outline, and the background and chronology of her life
Chapter 1: An Emerging Self
Explores the process of profound personal change that occurred in Etty.
Within her intimate relationship with her therapist Julius Spier she
grappled with the chaotic complexity of her intense personality against the
background of her disturbed family and fearful times, and moved from an
insecure and depressive past towards an integrated self. It examines her
relationship with Spier and his crucial importance in enabling her to
change.
Chapter 2: Discovering God
This chapter explores the beginnings of Etty's spirituality, looking at how
understandings of prayer and God slowly took root and grew in her, her
formation as the child of a liberal Jewish background, her secular student
days and the gradual development of her contemplative life. It touches on
her surprise and embarrassment at her strongly emerging religious
consciousness -- a deep sense of the intimate life of God within. As she
faced up to her own end and the destruction of her people, the realisation
dawned upon her that God was unable to help them and so, she says, 'they
must help Him' and, if they are to retain their integrity as human beings
'guard his Presence within them at all costs'. This chapter explores how
this insight, with its profound theological significance, connects with
understandings of God in the Christian and other traditions.
Chapter 3: Refusing to hate
Etty wrote a lot about hatred. This chapter looks at her refusal to hate
and goes on to explore the phenomenon of hatred and its function in the
collective mind of a persecuted people -- how it galvanises and unites,
helping people to cope with their fear, but is ultimately an avoidance and
displacement mechanism which Etty believed was profoundly destructive.
Determined to hate "only the evil that is within me", Etty wrote of what it
meant to bear fear and suffering, absorbing and accepting it rather than
turning it back on those causing it. This understanding produced some of
her most profound writing and makes her a universal figure, able to
identify with all who suffer, including 'German mothers for they too sorrow
for their slain and murdered sons'.
Chapter 4: Losing her life
As the persecutions intensified, many Jews clung to life and struggled to
avoid their destruction. Along with her refusal to hate, Etty refused to
hide or to evade what she saw coming. Her clear-eyed acceptance of the end
and her refusal to clutch at illusions grew out of her commitment to truth
and to living in the present rather than in fear of the future. "It sounds
paradoxical," she wrote, "but by excluding death from our life we cannot
live a full life... and by admitting death into our life we enlarge and
enrich it." This chapter reflects on this paradox and its place in other
religious traditions.
Chapter 5: Seeing Differently
Etty's greatest fear was that she would sleep-walk into death, that
numbness would overcome her. Her triumph was to show that the reality of
the Holocaust -- the power of a terrible hatred against the Jews -- was not
the only or final reality. She saw and lived from other realities in the
midst of the hell around her and in the end was neither captive to, nor
overwhelmed by the darkness. This chapter goes to the heart of the paradox
that enabled her -- surrounded by death -- to be a source of care and
compassion for others and to continue to insist that life was meaningful
and beautiful and, as she set out on her final journey to Auschwitz, to
"leave the camp singing".
Chapter 6: A woman for our time
At a time of decline in institutional religion, Etty is a curiously modern
person. Her route into spirituality is initially through psychotherapy and
the exploration of the self. She sees the world through the prism of the
person: systems of thought claiming 'the truth' inevitably contain
falsehood and divide people. Suspicious of religious or political ideology,
she sees the struggle for peace and a new world rooted in personal change.
She is ecumenical in the widest sense, bridging the differences between
religions. She was a Jew who drew inspiration from the New Testament, from
St Augustine, from Russian writers, from Jung and above all from Rilke. She
forged a spirituality that connects and resonates with aspects from all the
great religious traditions -- not only Judaism and Christianity, but also
Buddhism and Hinduism. She lived and died at a time of mass violence. Her
diaries and letters are an extended reflection on what it means to be fully
human in the midst of violence and the temptations of violence, and she
looks beyond the violence of her time to a new world. At a time of fear of
terrorism, and mass violence in response to that fear, her writing is very
contemporary.
Introduction
Why the diary and letters of this inspirational young woman who died in the
Holocaust are of such significance and speak beyond her own time and
context
Who was Etty Hillesum?
brief biographical outline, and the background and chronology of her life
Chapter 1: An Emerging Self
Explores the process of profound personal change that occurred in Etty.
Within her intimate relationship with her therapist Julius Spier she
grappled with the chaotic complexity of her intense personality against the
background of her disturbed family and fearful times, and moved from an
insecure and depressive past towards an integrated self. It examines her
relationship with Spier and his crucial importance in enabling her to
change.
Chapter 2: Discovering God
This chapter explores the beginnings of Etty's spirituality, looking at how
understandings of prayer and God slowly took root and grew in her, her
formation as the child of a liberal Jewish background, her secular student
days and the gradual development of her contemplative life. It touches on
her surprise and embarrassment at her strongly emerging religious
consciousness -- a deep sense of the intimate life of God within. As she
faced up to her own end and the destruction of her people, the realisation
dawned upon her that God was unable to help them and so, she says, 'they
must help Him' and, if they are to retain their integrity as human beings
'guard his Presence within them at all costs'. This chapter explores how
this insight, with its profound theological significance, connects with
understandings of God in the Christian and other traditions.
Chapter 3: Refusing to hate
Etty wrote a lot about hatred. This chapter looks at her refusal to hate
and goes on to explore the phenomenon of hatred and its function in the
collective mind of a persecuted people -- how it galvanises and unites,
helping people to cope with their fear, but is ultimately an avoidance and
displacement mechanism which Etty believed was profoundly destructive.
Determined to hate "only the evil that is within me", Etty wrote of what it
meant to bear fear and suffering, absorbing and accepting it rather than
turning it back on those causing it. This understanding produced some of
her most profound writing and makes her a universal figure, able to
identify with all who suffer, including 'German mothers for they too sorrow
for their slain and murdered sons'.
Chapter 4: Losing her life
As the persecutions intensified, many Jews clung to life and struggled to
avoid their destruction. Along with her refusal to hate, Etty refused to
hide or to evade what she saw coming. Her clear-eyed acceptance of the end
and her refusal to clutch at illusions grew out of her commitment to truth
and to living in the present rather than in fear of the future. "It sounds
paradoxical," she wrote, "but by excluding death from our life we cannot
live a full life... and by admitting death into our life we enlarge and
enrich it." This chapter reflects on this paradox and its place in other
religious traditions.
Chapter 5: Seeing Differently
Etty's greatest fear was that she would sleep-walk into death, that
numbness would overcome her. Her triumph was to show that the reality of
the Holocaust -- the power of a terrible hatred against the Jews -- was not
the only or final reality. She saw and lived from other realities in the
midst of the hell around her and in the end was neither captive to, nor
overwhelmed by the darkness. This chapter goes to the heart of the paradox
that enabled her -- surrounded by death -- to be a source of care and
compassion for others and to continue to insist that life was meaningful
and beautiful and, as she set out on her final journey to Auschwitz, to
"leave the camp singing".
Chapter 6: A woman for our time
At a time of decline in institutional religion, Etty is a curiously modern
person. Her route into spirituality is initially through psychotherapy and
the exploration of the self. She sees the world through the prism of the
person: systems of thought claiming 'the truth' inevitably contain
falsehood and divide people. Suspicious of religious or political ideology,
she sees the struggle for peace and a new world rooted in personal change.
She is ecumenical in the widest sense, bridging the differences between
religions. She was a Jew who drew inspiration from the New Testament, from
St Augustine, from Russian writers, from Jung and above all from Rilke. She
forged a spirituality that connects and resonates with aspects from all the
great religious traditions -- not only Judaism and Christianity, but also
Buddhism and Hinduism. She lived and died at a time of mass violence. Her
diaries and letters are an extended reflection on what it means to be fully
human in the midst of violence and the temptations of violence, and she
looks beyond the violence of her time to a new world. At a time of fear of
terrorism, and mass violence in response to that fear, her writing is very
contemporary.
Why the diary and letters of this inspirational young woman who died in the
Holocaust are of such significance and speak beyond her own time and
context
Who was Etty Hillesum?
brief biographical outline, and the background and chronology of her life
Chapter 1: An Emerging Self
Explores the process of profound personal change that occurred in Etty.
Within her intimate relationship with her therapist Julius Spier she
grappled with the chaotic complexity of her intense personality against the
background of her disturbed family and fearful times, and moved from an
insecure and depressive past towards an integrated self. It examines her
relationship with Spier and his crucial importance in enabling her to
change.
Chapter 2: Discovering God
This chapter explores the beginnings of Etty's spirituality, looking at how
understandings of prayer and God slowly took root and grew in her, her
formation as the child of a liberal Jewish background, her secular student
days and the gradual development of her contemplative life. It touches on
her surprise and embarrassment at her strongly emerging religious
consciousness -- a deep sense of the intimate life of God within. As she
faced up to her own end and the destruction of her people, the realisation
dawned upon her that God was unable to help them and so, she says, 'they
must help Him' and, if they are to retain their integrity as human beings
'guard his Presence within them at all costs'. This chapter explores how
this insight, with its profound theological significance, connects with
understandings of God in the Christian and other traditions.
Chapter 3: Refusing to hate
Etty wrote a lot about hatred. This chapter looks at her refusal to hate
and goes on to explore the phenomenon of hatred and its function in the
collective mind of a persecuted people -- how it galvanises and unites,
helping people to cope with their fear, but is ultimately an avoidance and
displacement mechanism which Etty believed was profoundly destructive.
Determined to hate "only the evil that is within me", Etty wrote of what it
meant to bear fear and suffering, absorbing and accepting it rather than
turning it back on those causing it. This understanding produced some of
her most profound writing and makes her a universal figure, able to
identify with all who suffer, including 'German mothers for they too sorrow
for their slain and murdered sons'.
Chapter 4: Losing her life
As the persecutions intensified, many Jews clung to life and struggled to
avoid their destruction. Along with her refusal to hate, Etty refused to
hide or to evade what she saw coming. Her clear-eyed acceptance of the end
and her refusal to clutch at illusions grew out of her commitment to truth
and to living in the present rather than in fear of the future. "It sounds
paradoxical," she wrote, "but by excluding death from our life we cannot
live a full life... and by admitting death into our life we enlarge and
enrich it." This chapter reflects on this paradox and its place in other
religious traditions.
Chapter 5: Seeing Differently
Etty's greatest fear was that she would sleep-walk into death, that
numbness would overcome her. Her triumph was to show that the reality of
the Holocaust -- the power of a terrible hatred against the Jews -- was not
the only or final reality. She saw and lived from other realities in the
midst of the hell around her and in the end was neither captive to, nor
overwhelmed by the darkness. This chapter goes to the heart of the paradox
that enabled her -- surrounded by death -- to be a source of care and
compassion for others and to continue to insist that life was meaningful
and beautiful and, as she set out on her final journey to Auschwitz, to
"leave the camp singing".
Chapter 6: A woman for our time
At a time of decline in institutional religion, Etty is a curiously modern
person. Her route into spirituality is initially through psychotherapy and
the exploration of the self. She sees the world through the prism of the
person: systems of thought claiming 'the truth' inevitably contain
falsehood and divide people. Suspicious of religious or political ideology,
she sees the struggle for peace and a new world rooted in personal change.
She is ecumenical in the widest sense, bridging the differences between
religions. She was a Jew who drew inspiration from the New Testament, from
St Augustine, from Russian writers, from Jung and above all from Rilke. She
forged a spirituality that connects and resonates with aspects from all the
great religious traditions -- not only Judaism and Christianity, but also
Buddhism and Hinduism. She lived and died at a time of mass violence. Her
diaries and letters are an extended reflection on what it means to be fully
human in the midst of violence and the temptations of violence, and she
looks beyond the violence of her time to a new world. At a time of fear of
terrorism, and mass violence in response to that fear, her writing is very
contemporary.