The Muselmann at the water cooler
Winner of the 2012 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award in Holocaust Literature. A survivor of concentration camps and the Death March, Eli Pfefferkorn looks back on his Holocaust and post-Holocaust experiences to compare patterns of human behavior in extremis with those of ordinary life....
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Academic Studies Press
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421020506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Table of contents
- Foreword / Berenbaum, Michael
- Preface
- Glossary
- In the Beginning there was Bread and Freedom and Apathy
- One or Two?
- A Journey Back in Time
- Quo Vadis?
- The Amphibian Feet and the Soprano Voice
- Three Levels of Knowing
- Getting High on Zinger Tea
- Carrying the Armband Jude
- A Tom Sawyer Adventure
- Caught in the Web
- From the Armband to the Yellow Triangle
- A World that Has to be Imagined to Make it Real
- A Mother Mourning her Children
- The Plasticity of Human Nature
- Dodging the Muselmann's Netherworld
- Virtual Reality
- Beware the Yellowish-Green Colour
- Irena - My Willowy Sister
- Protecting my Lebensraum
- Looking into the Pistol's Muzzle
- Mottos reflecting the Shifting Situations
- The Messiah is Nigh
- The Predator Matrons
- Jedem das Seine - To Each his Own
- The Bond and the Rule
- "April is the Cruellest Month"
- Latter-Day Messiahs have come
- Death Stalking Life
- At the Birth of a Dream
- My Initiation into Scooping Humus
- The Schnitzel Riddle
- Israel and I - An Uneasy Co-Existence
- The Sabra Model
- The Other
- The New Day's Rhythm
- The Temptation of the Cross
- Harold Fisch - My Patron Saint
- A Subject of Interest
- The Lure of the London Stage
- Humouring the Jewish Agency
- The Fateful Sukkah Meeting
- My Brother - Yusuf
- In the Aftermath of the Six-Day War
- A Critic at Large
- Kosher Style
- Black Cats versus White Cats
- An Immodest Proposal
- Hosanna
- Chomsky and I
- From Providence to the Holy Land
- The Yom Kippur War
- Touching the Past with Dieter
- Pfefferkorn versus the State of Israel
- The Latter-Day Hellenists
- Imitatio Dei
- The Bitburg Offence to Memory
- The Water Cooler Metaphor
- In Image and Word
- The Life of Pi
- My Secret Garden
- Speak No Evil of Man: He, Himself, is Testimony to It
- The Lost Generation
- Index
