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The Righteous of Switzerland
The English edition includes statements and speeches by various persons (pp. xvii-xxxviii), the stories of two more Swiss citizens nominated by Yad Vashem for recognition as Righteous of the Nations, and other lesser-known accounts of Swiss citizens who helped save Jews during the war. Some of them are published here for the first time.
The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz
George Mantello, First Secretary of the El Salvador Consulate in Geneva from 1942 to 1945, defied strict censorship to launch a press campaign against the daily deportation of 12,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz. This is the true story of one man’s efforts to bring horrific news of the Nazi genocide to the Swiss public and to the rest of the world. Armed with this information, prominent Swiss church leaders and theologians condemned the unfolding Holocaust from their pulpits, spurring large public demonstrations. In 400 articles appearing in 120 newspapers, Mantello reached opinion makers throughout the world community. International pressure halted the Hungarian deportations, and Mantello distributed thousands of Salvadoran citizenship papers to Jews in Nazi-occupied territories. In addition to Mantello’s role, Kranzler shows how Swiss theologians such as karl barth and paul Vogt mobilized thousands of Christians against the Germans and against the indifference of the Swiss government and the International Red Cross. This fresh look at the intersection of politics and religion also allows for a new assessment of Swiss complicity in the crimes of the Nazi Third Reich.
Protestant Missionaries and Humanitarianism in the DRC
A significant contribution to the history of humanitarianism, Christianity and the politics of aid in Africa.
The Negev
The Negev, first published over a decade ago, told the story of some twenty years of study of southern Israel's desert. It synthesized the findings of botanists, geologists, soil scientists, agronomists, archaeologists, historians, and engineers and told how the applications of their work produced an agricultural surplus in this forbiddingly dry, hot region. Now Michael Evenari has amplified the book with data from another decade of work. He describes the efforts at a new farm at Wadi Mashash, extends the weather data another ten years, presents further work on the adaptations of plants and animals to desert conditions, and takes a much deeper look at the historical precedents for the method of runoff agriculture, which has made the desert bloom.
The "Language game" of confessing one's belief
Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.
Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning
The best informal de?nition of the Semantic Web is maybe found in the May 2001Scienti?cAmericanarticle“TheSemanticWeb”(Berners-Leeetal. ),which says“TheSemanticWebisanextensionofthecurrentWebinwhichinformation is given well-de?ned meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. ” People who work on the Semantic Web quite often base their work on the famous “semantic web tower”, a product of Tim Berners-Lee’s inspiring drawing on whiteboards. The lowest level is the level of character representation (Unicode) and the identi?cation of resources on the Web (URIs). The highest level concerns the problem of trusting information on the Web. Somewhere in the midd...
'... als ob unseres Nachbars Haus nicht in Flammen stünde'
Pfarrer Paul Vogt und drei Zürcher Kollegen mobilisierten Ende 1937 gemeinsam mit Karl Barth in kürzester Zeit über 700 reformierte Kirchgemeinden zur Unterstützung der Bekennenden Kirche Deutschlands (BK), der Kirche, die sich dem nationalsozialistischen Geist widersetzte. Das neu entstandene Hilfswerk intervenierte für den inhaftierten Martin Niemöller und führte den monatlichen 'Flüchtlingsbatzen' ein. Bis 1939 nutzten junge Theologen der BK rege das Angebot zu Erholungsaufenthalten und Seminaren in der Schweiz. Für Schweizer Pfarrer wurden von 1938 bis 1942 Tagungen zu Kirche und Flüchtlingspolitik organisiert, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem jüdischen Flüchtlingsdienst verantwortete das Hilfswerk u.x1Aa. vier koscher geführte Heime. 1944 gelang es Paul Vogt, zusammen mit Hans Schaffert, das sogenannte Auschwitzprotokoll zu veröffentlichen und damit dem Schweigen der Regierungen über den Holocaust ein Ende zu setzen. Heinrich Rusterholz schildert detailliert Entstehung und Wirkung des Schweizerischen Evangelischen Hilfswerks für die Bekennende Kirche in Deutschland und zeigt die couragierten Dienste auf, die das später ins HEKS überführte Hilfswerk leistete.
In a Strange Land
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