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Korespondencja więźniów z obozu w Auschwitz w świetle akt Sądu Grodzkiego w Krakowie z lat 1946–1950
Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne, 2018 The Auschwitz concentration camp was established in 1940. It was the largest Nazi concentration camp situated on the territory of the occupied Poland. It was also an extermination camp of the prisoners incarcerated there.
Sylwia Przewoźnik
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Language, Otherness, and the Art of Struggle: A Dialogical Reading of the People of Babel
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Many have valued the story of Babel for its anthropological insights. However, what these might be has remained contentious. One of the most recent debates has concerned the nature of the people's sin. Where more traditional accounts have accentuated the severity of their actions and the finality of God's retributive response, other ...
Matthew D. Kirkpatrick
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Csobánka, Zsuzsa. 2013: Majdnem Auschwitz ('Almost Auschwitz'). Budapest: Kalligram. 279 pp.
Hungarian Cultural Studies, 2016 Csobánka, Zsuzsa. 2013: Majdnem Auschwitz ('Almost Auschwitz'). Budapest: Kalligram. 279 pp.
Agatha Schwartz
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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Jean Améry. Entre la razón crítica y la desesperanza
Acta Poética, 2019 Este artículo indaga sobre la escritura de Jean Améry (Austria, 1912-1978), sobreviviente de Auschwitz, quien desde la ficción o el ensayo autorreferencial exploró la catástrofe del mundo contemporáneo.
Enzo Traverso
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Mercy: A Right and a Privilege
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many accounts of mercy nowadays are morally neutral; agents show mercy when they impose less harm than they might have, whether or not such harm would have been permissible. More morally infused perspectives are often dismissed; for they seem too narrow to capture the full gamut of ordinary usage.
Jessica Isserow
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Lyotard versus Hegel: The violent end of postmodernity [PDF]
Filozofija i DruštvoIn the final phase of the Cold War, Jean-François Lyotard popularized the end of modernity and the dawn of a new era, “postmodernity”. But postmodernism is already over again.
Herberg-Rothe Andreas
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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Etty Hillesum: Esse quam videri – Reformed Christian perspectives on a spiritual journey
In die Skriflig, 2020 Etty Hillesum, known as the adult Anne Frank, diarised her emotional and intellectual journey from 09 March 1941 to 15 September 1943, a final postcard thrown from the train en route to Auschwitz from Westerbork transit camp.
Raymond Potgieter
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