This Hardcover Book item from Henry Holt & Company was reviewed on 6-Jun-2009. Search ISBN:0805048944 offer from Abebooks or used books from Alibris. Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life : The Diaries, 1941-1943 Reference Book. Classifications : Jewish Ethnic & National Biographies & Memoirs Subjects Books Holocaust Historical Biographies & Memoirs Subjects Books General Biographies & Memoirs Subjects Books General AAS Biographies & Memoirs S . Click the following link to view the cover of Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life : The Diaries, 1941-1943. Related topics: Jewish. Ethnic & National. Subjects. Books. Holocaust. Historical. Subjects. Books. General. Subjects. requestid: e5ad3b98-beae-49a8-bbe1-565762136cec
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1) Hardcover Book Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life : The Diaries, 1941-1943 by Henry Holt & Company. I´m your typical neurotic writer, way too self-conscious for my own good, so I identified all too well with Etty´s initial stream of niggling complaints and concerns. Knowing where she started (since I´ve lived it), I found Etty´s journey--from living for herself to living for and through others--to be nothing less than mind-blowing. Etty truly becomes "the thinking heart of the barracks," finding hope and contentment she has never known before in the midst of Westerbork concentration camp, a place that drove many others to depression and suicide. Etty is a testament to the power Viktor Frankl says every human being has: "to choose one´s own attitude in any given circumstance, to choose one´s own way."¤ 2) Hardcover Book Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life : The Diaries, 1941-1943 by Henry Holt & Company. As the author of two books that deal with women´s lives during the second world war, Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivorsand Where She Came From : A Daughter´s Search for Her Mother´s History, and someone who has thoroughly researched the Holocaust literature, I can attest to the unique qualities of this book. Etty´s insistence on her right to an inner life despite the insanity of the external world closing in around her is an inspiration to those of us engaged in intellectual or spiritual endeavors in this far easier time. Her account of continuing psychotherapy as the Nazis made the rudiments of ordinary existence impossible is a testament to her passion for understanding herself and her world. Eva Hoffman´s intrduction is superb. This is a book I return to again and again.¤ 3) Hardcover Book Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life : The Diaries, 1941-1943 by Henry Holt & Company. This book is an intelligent conversion story. The author, Etty Hillesum, begins writing at a time when her life was repugnant; and yet, she is obviously very intelligent and so reading what she wrote during that period is not a waste of time.
Towards the middle of the book, Etty begins to change, and by the end, she is an admirable person - not just because she is intelligent, but also because she is good. It seems that her will changed, which is the definition of conversion.
I would compare this book favorably with "Surprised by Joy", which is the autobiography of C.S. Lewis. "Surprised by Joy" is a great book for Christians. "Etty Hillesum" is a great book for anyone.
Shawn T. Miller
¤ 4) Hardcover Book Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life : The Diaries, 1941-1943 by Henry Holt & Company. This book would be one of the five. Its not about the Holocaust, not really. It is about one of the most soulful women who we all could learn so much from about how to approach our days. I cherish this book with all my heart. It came to me in a very weird way however! My parents were viisting me in Seattle when I lived there and while browsing in Elliott Bay Books, my mom handed me this book and said, "When I die I want this book buried with me!" I know, thats kind of a weird sell but she bought me my own copy (along with a separate one for her future plans) and I read it in one evening. I couldn´t put it down. While she lived just a short distance from Anne Frank and was writing her journals at the same time, they are equally moving but worlds apart. Etty was in her late twenties while she wrote and her outlook on life is simply among the most remarkable I have ever encountered. I don´t think I need to be buried with it but that doesn´t mean I don´t recommend it extremely highly for both men and women. Its a privilege to be able to recommend it, to know that even while her life was so tragically cut short at Auschwitz, that her journals survived and that maybe just one person more will come to her journals as a result of this review. You know what? I´d like to be buried with this book too. Also include a cupcake.¤ 5) Hardcover Book Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life : The Diaries, 1941-1943 by Henry Holt & Company. Etty Hillessum´s diaries and her letters from Westerbork serve as an outstanding testament to the human spirit and the ability to find the sacred in the most horrific of situations. Although she was not a saint in the sense that Teresa of Avila or Juan de la Cruz were saints, she could properly be considered a mystic and a good example of a modern who had ´enlightened´ insights. I find her diaries at once humane and modern in the sense of a liberated ´bohemian´ who explored her sexuality and her psyche. As her diaries progress, her inner life (and oneness with God) deepens as the horrors of the realities of being Jewish in Europe during the Second World War becomes more apparent. I highly recommend this book! It will change your life!¤ 6) Hardcover Book Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life : The Diaries, 1941-1943 by Henry Holt & Company. For the first time, Etty Hillesum´s diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible gallantry were themselves a form of inner resistance. The adult counterpart to Anne Frank, Hillesum testifies to the possibility of awareness and compassion in the face of the most devastating challenge to one´s humanity. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine.
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