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“Home Away from Home”

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Abigail

“Home Away from Home” “Abigail has always felt abandoned,” Léo Bronstein, my father’s best friend, once said. Léo was a sort of godfather to me and said this after he read the earlier version of my Confessions of a Young … Continue reading →

Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, absurdism, action, alienation, childhood, cities, contradictions, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, faith, fashion, femininity, freedom, friendship, gender balance, guilt and innocence, health, heroes, history, history of ideas, identity, ideology, idolatry, institutional power, Jews, journalism, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, love, male power, masculinity, master, medieval, memoir, mind control, motherhood, philosophy, political, political movements, power, psychology, race, reductionism, relationships, religion, roles, social conventions, sociobiology, spirituality, suffering, terror, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, theism, time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, violence, war, Zeitgeist | Tagged "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", 1930's, abandonment, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", accuracy, afterlife rewards, age-mates, aggresion, attachment, Auschwitz, building superintendant, café atmosphere, café habituées, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, danger, defense, Divine permission, dysfunctional family, earthly Jerusalem, enemy agent, FBI, German spies, godfathers, hatred, heavenly Jerusalem, Hitler, Holocaust, home, homelessness, homelike, identity, international media, Jerusalem, Jihad, journalists, knife attacks, Leo Bronstein, Madison Avenue, medieval cartography, navel of the world, New York, nonsurvivors, offense, Park Avenue, provocation, security, sense of safety, short wave radio, sincerity, SS guard, survival, the objective case, The Wizard of Oz, troop ships, trust, truthfulness, U boats, Upper East Side, violence, World War II, Yorkville, Zyklon B | 4 Comments

“Beyond Recovery”

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Abigail

“Beyond Recovery” I’ve been reading a book with the rather haunting title, Beyond the Ashes: Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust. The author, Yonassan Gershom, is a rabbi who is well versed in the kabbalistic, mystical strain within Judaism. His … Continue reading →

Posted in action, alienation, culture, desire, dialectic, ethics, evil, faith, femininity, freedom, guilt and innocence, health, history, history of ideas, identity, ideology, institutional power, Jews, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, male power, master, memoir, peace, philosophy, political, political movements, power, race, relationships, roles, slave, social conventions, spirituality, suffering, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, time, twentieth century, violence, war, writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged 1930's, archetypes, Beyond the Ashes: Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust, cancer, concentration camp tattoos, gang rape, gas chambers, genocide, Jews and Gentiles, Kabbalah, memory, mystical, past life, philosophers, post-traumatic stress, Rabbi, radiation treatment, recovery, reincarnation, safety, Shoah, the new anti-Semitism, theologians, therapy, trauma, treatment for trauma, universal consciousness, World War II, Yonassan Gershom, Zeitgeist, Zyklon B | 1 Comment

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