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Sing, Memory: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps
A Polish musician, a Jewish conductor, a secret choir, and the rescue of a trove of music from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. On a cold October night in 1942, SS guards at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp violently disbanded a rehearsal of a secret Jewish choir led by conductor Rosebery d’Arguto. Many in the group did not live to see morning, and those who survived the guards’ reprisal were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau just a few weeks later. Only one of its members survived the Holocaust. Yet their story survives, thanks to Aleksander Kulisiewicz. An amateur musician, he was not Jewish, but struck up an unlikely friendship with d’Arguto in Sachsenhausen. D’Arguto tasked...
The Politics of a Disillusioned Europe
Moving from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the present day, this book traces the trajectory of the six East Central European former satellites of the Soviet Union (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria) that have joined the European Union. It seeks in particular to explain these countries’ disenchantment with the “return to Europe” in spite of their significant advances. The book proceeds country by country and then devotes chapters to some contemporary issues, such as minorities, migration, and the relations of these “new” members with the European Union as a whole. The book eschews theory and is intended for a general audience, including students at all levels in political science and history classes devoted to the EU and to contemporary Europe, and to an academic and practitioner audience interested in world affairs and the evolution of the European Union. The book strives to fill a persistent knowledge gap in the English-speaking world concerning East Central Europe, and to offer fresh insights about the region in the context of contemporary geopolitics.
The Troubling State of India's Democracy
As India’s power and prominence rise on the international stage, its longstanding tradition of democracy is under threat. Since establishing a secular and democratic constitution in 1950, India has held elections at the local, state, and national levels with frequent transitions of power between opposing parties. This commitment to democracy has provided political order to a country that is twice the size of Europe and with a stunning array of social and economic divides. Despite this rich tradition, India’s democracy faces an unprecedented threat with the rise of Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party, the Bharatiya Janata Party. After decisively winning general elections in 2014...
L'uomo che salvò la musica dall'inferno
L’incredibile storia vera di come la musica ha ridato speranza ai prigionieri nei campi di concentramento nazisti In una fredda notte di ottobre del 1942, le guardie del campo di concentramento di Sachsenhausen sorprendono un gruppo di prigionieri ebrei radunati in segreto. Sono i membri di un coro clandestino, che stanno provando il repertorio guidati dal direttore d’orchestra Rosebery d’Arguto. Molti di loro vengono giustiziati sul momento, e quelli che sopravvivono alla rappresaglia sono deportati ad Auschwitz-Birkenau di lì a poche settimane. L’unico che riesce a salvarsi è Aleksander Kulisiewicz, un musicista polacco dotato di una singolare e incredibile memoria. È a lui che ...
Poesis in Extremis
How can genocide be witnessed through imaginative literature? How can the Holocaust affect readers who were not there? Reading the work of major figures such as Elie Wiesel, Paul Celan, Avrom Sutzkever, Ida Fink, Wladyslaw Szlengel, Itzhak Katzenelson, and Czeslaw Milosz, Poesis in Extremis poses fundamental questions about how prose and poetry are written under extreme conditions, either in real time or immediately after the Holocaust. Framed by discussion of literary testimony, with Wiesel's literary memoir Night as an entry point, this innovative study explores the blurred boundary of fact and fiction in Holocaust literature. It asks whether there is a poetics of the Holocaust and what might be the criteria for literary witnessing. Wartime writing in particular tests the limits of “poesis in extremis” when poets faced their own annihilation and wrote in the hope that their words, like a message in a bottle, would somehow reach readers. Through Poesis in Extremis, Daniel Feldman and Efraim Sicher probe the boundaries of Holocaust literature, as well as the limits of representation.
Ambiguities of Europe’s Eastern Neighbourhood
Based on the diverging interests of Germany and Poland as influential members of the European Union on the Eastern Partnership (EaP), the contributions in the anthology analyse specifics and current problems of the states in EU’s Eastern neighbourhood. By including the interests of Russia and the USA, which go beyond the EU, the geostrategic implications of these relations for the Eurasian region will also be highlighted. The studies of renowned German and Polish experts represent the results of individual research and bilateral exchange on the current state of EU’s relations towards its Eastern neighbours.
Original Nation Approaches to Inter-National Law
This book introduces the Original Nation scholarship to examine the historical genealogy of the nation’s struggles against the state. A fundamentally different portrait of history, geography, politics, and the role of law emerges when the perspective of the nation and peoples is placed at the center of geopolitical analysis of global affairs. In contrast to traditional and canonical state-centric narratives, the Original Nation scholarship offers a diametrically distinct “on-the-ground” and “bottom-up” portrait of the struggle, resistance, and defiance of the nation and peoples. It exposes persistent global patterns of genocide, ecocide, and ethnocide that have resulted from attempts by the state to occupy, suppress, exploit, and destroy the nation. The Original Nation scholarship offers a powerful and widely applicable intellectual tool to examine the history of resilience, emancipatory struggles, and collective efforts to build a vibrant alternative world among the nation and peoples across the globe.
Les épopées minuscules - 100 contes vrais et autres histoires de la vie ordinaire
De la lecture pour "ceux qui sont fatigués par l'actualité et ses évidences, ses unes, ses émissions spéciales, ses breaking news, ses urgences et ses boursouflures." France Inter Il était une fois... Une jeune Chinoise qui trouve dans la lecture une manière de s'émanciper de sa condition sociale ; un banc public qui raconterait ses aventures ; un centenaire perché dans la montagne, dans une maison aux soixante-dix portes ; un " club des hommes ennuyeux " où l'on se réunit pour évoquer la beauté des ronds-points, ces " oasis dans une mer d'asphalte " ; une histoire des poches et de ce qui s'y cache, une autre des jardins et de l'espérance qu'on y cultive... et tant d'autres his...
Forgive Me
A stunning and compelling novel of love and ambition.
They Called Me Mayer July
My town - My family - My youth - My future.
