Writing As Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, and Etty Hillesum - Couverture souple

Brenner, Rachel Feldhay

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 027102285X ISBN 13 : 9780271022857

Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Writing as Resistance In this moving account of the life, work, and ethics of four Jewish women intellectuals in the world of the Holocaust, Rachel Feldhay Brenner explores the ways in which these women sought to maintain their faith in humanity while aware of intensifying destruction. She argues that through their written responses of autobiographical self-assertion Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, and Etty Hillesum resisted the Nazi terror in ways that defy its horrifying dehumanization.Personal identity crises engendered the intellectual-spiritual acts of autobiographical self-searching for each of these women. About to become a nun in 1933, Edith Stein embarked on her au...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 027102285X
• ISBN 13: 9780271022857
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224