Tag Archives: Jewish
“Anne Frank”
“Anne Frank” What a triumph that girl brought off! Through her unassuming, young girl’s diary, the whole world came to share the sorrows and the innocence of the persecuted Jewish people. Identifying with her was not difficult. At the time of the … Continue reading
Posted in culture, life and death struggle, literature, philosophy
Tagged Anne Frank, anti-semitism, coming of age, Holocaust, Jewish, memoir, Shoah
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“All About My Mother”
“All About My Mother” Unlike me, my mother would give advice, solicited and unsolicited. For example: “Never tell other people your sexual history or how much money you have. That’s Life Capital.” In the little town in Maine where my … Continue reading
Posted in academe, culture, femininity, philosophy, political, relationships, the examined life
Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal, Abigail Martin, academic politics, France, Holocaust, hospice, Jewish, Jewish history, Kafka, Lausanne, Maine, Maternal insult, Mother, Mother Teresa, mother-daughter relationships, sexual history, state department, World War II
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“Faith”
“Faith” What is the place of faith in a woman’s life or a man’s? In what should we have faith and when is it best to withhold it? As a small child, it’s been reported that I was standing on … Continue reading
Posted in academe, culture, desire, faith, femininity, history of ideas, life and death struggle, philosophy, political, psychology, relationships, the examined life
Tagged Ammon Hennacy, blind-faith, Catholic Worker, Catholic Worker Movement, Catholicism, Cherokee, Dorothy Day, Faith, French, Ghandi, God, Isle St. Louis, Jew, Jewish, Lower Manhattan, Midstream Magazine, North Carolina, pacifism, pacifist, pogrom, Quaker, reservation, Russia, unseen, W. H. Auden
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