The diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum (1914—1943) have a special place among the Jewish-Dutch testimonies of the Shoah, somuch so that Etty Hillesum studies has become its own field. This book offers the most important contributions from the pastfifteen years of international research into Hillesum’s work and life, studying her ethical, philosophical, spiritual, and literary existential search.

[Klaas A.D. Smelik](http://klaasadsmelik.nl/) (* Hilversum 1950) studied Theology, Semitic Languages and Ancient History in Utrecht, Amsterdam and Leiden. He taught Old Testament and Hebrew in Utrecht, Amsterdam and Brussels, Ancient and Jewish History at the K.U. Leuven, and Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ghent University. In 2006, he founded the Etty Hillesum Research Centre (EHOC).Gerrit Van Oord (1948) founded in 1990 the Italian publishing house Apeiron Editori. He is the coordinator for the EHOC in Italy.Jurjen Wiersma (1943) is professor emeritus of Ethics, Hermeneutics, and Philosophy at the Protestant Theological Faculty in Brussels.

ContentsPrefaceIntroductionKlaas A.D. Smelik, A Short Biography of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) The DiariesKlaas A.D. Smelik, To Remember Is To Act: From a Bundle of Notebooks to a Worldwide Publication Marja Clement, 'Hineinhorchen' and Writing: The Language Use of Etty HillesumWar and PersecutionKlaas A.D. Smelik, Etty Hillesum's Choice Not To Go Into HidingLotte Bergen, Agency Within Nazi Constraints: Etty Hillesum and Her Interpretation of the Jewish FateJurjen Wiersma, One Ought To Write a Chronicle of WesterborkGerrit Van Oord,The Departure: A Reconstruction of the Unexpected Deportation of the Hillesum Family From Camp Westerbork on Tuesday 7 September 1943Reading and WritersMeins G.S. Coetsier, "Aesthetic Mirrors": Etty Hillesum and Rainer Maria RilkeJanny van der Molen,"I Keep Being Drawn Towards Jung": Good and Evil in the Work of Etty Hillesum and Carl Gustav JungJurjen Wiersma,"To Realize That Life Is Truly Simple": Etty Hillesum and Walther RathenauFamily and FriendsKlaas A.D. Smelik,Romance Down By The River IJssel: The First Meeting Between Etty Hillesum and Klaas Smelik SeniorAlexandra Nagel, Etty Hillesum, A Devoted Student of Julius Spier.Alexandra Nagel & Denise de Costa, With You, I Have My Anchorage: Fifteen Letters From Etty Hillesum to Julius SpierAlexandra Nagel & Ria van den Brandt, Three Times Yes and a Thousand Fold No! Julius Spier Writes to Etty HillesumReception of Hillesum's Diaries and LettersPiet Schrijvers, Etty Hillesum in Jewish ContextsThalia Gur-Klein, From Separation to Communitas: Etty Hillesum, A Jewish PerspectiveYves Bériault, The Invincible Hope of Christian de Chergé and Etty HillesumMary Evans, Etty Hillesum: Gender, the Modern and the Literature of the HolocaustHans Krabbendam,America in the Shade: Etty Hillesum As Mediator Between the Cold-War Perspectives on the HolocaustYukiko Yokohata, Perceptions of Etty Hillesum in JapanPatricia Couto, Thinker, Poet, Cyber Phenomenon, or Saint: Etty Hillesum in Portugal.Denise de Costa,Bright Orange and Crimson: How a Dutch Dissertation on Etty Hillesum Was Coloured by French PhilosophyKlaas A.D. Smelik, Ulrich Beck and Etty Hillesum Ronald Commers,Loving-Kindness, Hatred, and Moral Indignation: Etty Hillesum and Vladimir Jankélévitch, Ordo AmorisAnna Aluffi Pentini,A Woman's All-Embracing Search of "the Other": Etty Hillesum as the Basis of a "Pedagogy of Care and Attention"SummariesPersonaliaAcknowledgements