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Author Brenner, Rachel Feldhay, 1946-2021

Title Writing as resistance : four women confronting the Holocaust : Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum / Rachel Feldhay Brenner.

Publication Info. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1997]
©1997

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  940.5318 B838W    Check Shelf
Description vi, 216 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction: Meanings of Resistance -- The Dis/Continued Dialogue with the Enlightenment -- The Ongoing Edification of the Self -- The Transcending Consciousness of the Other -- Between Ecumenism and Anti-Judaism -- Stein and Weil: Diverging Responses to Jewish and Christian Traditions -- Stein and Weil: Between Self-Affirmation and Self-Reunification -- Frank and Hillesum: Identity and the Search for God -- Where Art and Self Meet -- Stein and Weil: Displaced Autobiographical Selves -- Frank and Hillesum: The Diarists as Growing Artists -- Gender Consciousness in the Rule of Terror -- Stein and Weil: Women's Nature and Destiny -- Toward Intellectual and Emotional Maturity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-207) and index.
Subject Stein, Edith, Saint, 1891-1942.
Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.
Frank, Anne, 1929-1945.
Hillesum, Etty, 1914-1943.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Sources.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
Autobiography -- Jewish authors.
Jewish women in the Holocaust -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women.
ISBN 027101623X alkaline paper
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