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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition (Unstated). North American Jewish Studies; 270 pages; Very Good condition. No noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

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Trade paperback. Condizione: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xx [2], 219, [3] pages. Glossary. Index. Front cover has some wear and soiling. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page The inscription reads: "For Nessa who has come to listen & will share with others, E. P. Maryland MARCH 2012". 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. What he finds is that the concentration camp inmate Müselmann, who has lost his hunger for life and is thus shunned by his fellow inmates on the soup line, bears an eerie resemblance to an office employee who has fallen from grace and whose coworkers avoid spending time with him at the water cooler. Though the circumstances are unfathomably far apart, the human response to their situations is triggered by self-preservation rather than by calculated evil. By juxtaposing these two separate worlds, Pfefferkorn demonstrates that the human condition has not changed significantly since Cain slew Abel and the Athenians sentenced Socrates. Winner of the 2012 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award in Holocaust Literature. Eli Pfefferkorn (Ph.D. Brown University) has served as Director of Research at the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, worked as a reviewer for the Literary Supplement of Haaretz, and edited the periodical "Hebrew Literature in Translation." He has worked as a professor at Haifa and Tel-Aviv Universities and has been a guest lecturer at Brown University. He is also the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship. Since the passage of time plays tricks with memory, memoirs written in proximity to the Holocaust ordinarily are given greater credence than later works. One would imagine that a survivor's account written more than 65 years after the Holocaust could not find a place in the canon of Holocaust literature, yet Eli Pfefferkorn's "The Muselmann at the Water Cooler" is indeed a significant addition. The word "Muselmann" was how prisoners described the walking dead, who had given into despair and for whom selection to the gas chamber seemed inevitable. Yoking that image to the workaday water cooler gives some idea of the disjunction of experience that Pfefferkorn portrays. His Holocaust experience included ghettoization, hiding and, ultimately, deportation to Majdanek, whose former inmates have written few memoirs. Rather than go to Palestine after the war, he went to England. Still a very young man, with a long future seemingly ahead of him, Eli's restlessness attracted him to the sea. He sought training as a merchant marine. His training attracted the attention of the Zionists, who were preparing for the inevitable War of Independence and sought his seamanship to defend the coastline. Drawn to Palestine by a sense of duty to the past rather than any Zionist aspirations, Eli found himself fighting far from the sea, in the sands of the Negev. Pfefferkorn slowly made his way into Israeli society from the extreme left, gradually undergoing a self-described process of embourgeoisement. Pfefferkorn's insight into Israeli society of the 1950s and '60s reminds us of a bygone era, of its aspirations and pretentions, intellectual and otherwise. Writing in literary journals and in the Friday newspaper literary supplements, he defended a fellow survivor ridiculed by the Canaanites. Elie Wiesel was reviled by earlier Israeli generations for remaining in France and America rather than making aliyah. Pfefferkorn, who worked closely with Wiesel during the early 1980s, when the latter was chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, recounts some of the controversies relating to Wiesel's chairmanship and his resignation en route to accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. The core of this book is not what happened to Pfefferkorn either before or after the war, but rather during the Shoah and his provocative reflections on its implications. His vantage point was unique. His ghetto and camp experiences brought him into close proximity with the killers. In the Radsyn-Podlaski ghetto in German-occupied Poland, Pfefferkorn worked as a sort of "gofer" for the chief of police. At Majdanek, he worked in the mansion of the commandant of the concentration camp, offering Pfefferkorn yet another opportunity to encounter the killers in the intimacy of their homes. It enabled him to observe and thus to see the perpetrators not only as distant monsters but as men and women of flesh and blood. His revulsion at their deeds is no less intense; his understanding of them as people is subtle and nuanced. Pfefferkorn's most compelling insight is that the Holocaust is an expression in the extreme of what is common to the mainstream of civilization. He is surely not the first to suggest this as a perspective from which to understand the Holocaust, but his argument is compelling. The concentration camps were invented and operated by humans and human depravity does not begin or end with the concentration camps. He defends the prerogatives of survivors but refuses to ennoble their suffering or to lionize them: Suffering is not necessarily a morally refining agent that turns apathy into compassion, greed into generosity, meanness into graciousness and ambition into humility. For a very long time, Pfefferkorn denied his experience in the Shoah. For one who denied being a survivor for so long, it is ironic that Pfefferkorn insists on the distinction between knowing about it and knowing it, which only comes after a direct encounter with the human instruments of evil. "The Muselmann at the Water Cooler" is a major and enduring contribution not only to survivor literature but also to our understanding of that evil. There are many memoirs of Auschwitz, far fewer of Majdanek. Only a handful of works have been written by survivors who lived in close proximity to the killers and saw them at leisure as well as at work. Pfefferkorn was there to observe, and he prepared a li.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No DJ. 1st Edition. Published: 2015. First Edition. Language: English. Book Condition: Near Fine: Extremely fine spotting to upper text block edge. DJ Condition: No DJ.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No DJ. Published: 2019. Language: English. Book Condition: Fine. DJ Condition: No DJ.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No DJ. Published: 2018. Language: Russian / English. Book Condition: Fine. DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages 659. Size: 24cm by 16cm. AUTHOR: Alexander Zholkovsky (b. 1938) is a Russian-American scholar renowned for his extensive work in literary theory, semiotics, and cultural studies. His academic journey traversed the Soviet Union and the United States, where he became a pivotal figure in introducing structuralist and post-structuralist approaches to Russian literary criticism. Zholkovskys oeuvre includes over thirty-five books and approximately four hundred articles, encompassing translations, reprints, and interviews. His interdisciplinary approach and commitment to bridging Russian and Western intellectual traditions have left an indelible mark on the field BOOK RESUME: A/Z: Essays in Honor of Alexander Zholkovsky (2018), edited by Dennis Ioffe, Marcus Levitt, Joe Peschio, and Igor Pilshchikov, is a comprehensive bilingual volume celebrating the scholarly contributions of Alexander Zholkovsky, a prominent figure in Russian literary studies. This collection compiles 44 essays from leading scholars across nine countries, reflecting the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of Zholkovskys work. The topics span Russian syntax, literary theory, cultural history, and film studies, employing methodologies ranging from computational analysis to literary memoir. The volume serves as both a tribute to Zholkovskys academic legacy and a snapshot of contemporary Russian literary scholarship. The book is presented in both English and Russian, reflecting Zholkovskys bilingual scholarship. POSTAGE: PLEASE NOTE - This is a heavy item and may require additional postage for overseas deliveries. We will contact you if additional charges are required. Please see our postage policy on our shop front for more information.…