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The Firm
Based on previously classified documents and on interviews with former secret police officers and ordinary citizens, The Firm is the first comprehensive history of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, at the grassroots level. Focusing on Gransee and Perleberg, two East German districts located north of Berlin, Gary Bruce reveals how the Stasi monitored small-town East Germany. He paints an eminently human portrait of those involved with this repressive arm of the government, featuring interviews with former officers that uncover a wide array of personalities, from devoted ideologues to reluctant opportunists, most of whom talked frankly about East Germany's obsession with surveillance. Their paths after the collapse of Communism are gripping stories of resurrection and despair, of renewal and demise, of remorse and continued adherence to the movement. The book also sheds much light on the role of the informant, the Stasi's most important tool in these out-of-the-way areas. Providing on-the-ground empirical evidence of how the Stasi operated on a day-to-day basis with ordinary people, this remarkable volume offers an unparalleled picture of life in a totalitarian state.
Feminist Biblical Interpretation
The original German edition of Feminist Biblical Interpretation received high acclaim and widespread positive reviews in Europe. That groundbreaking reference tool for contextual biblical interpretation is here available in English for the first time. With contributions from more than sixty female scholars, this is the only one-volume feminist commentary on the entire Bible, including books that are relatively uncharted territory for feminist theology.
Socialist Modern
This book explores the ways in which modernity shaped the relationship between socialist state and society in East Germany. The reunification of Germany in 1989 may have put an end to the experiment in East German communism, but its historical assessment is far from over. Where most of the literature over the past two decades has been driven by the desire to uncover the relationship between power and resistance, complicity and consent, more recent scholarship has tended to concentrate on the everyday history of East German citizens. experience of life in East Germany, with a particular view toward addressing the question: what did modernity mean for East German state and society? As such, th...
The Corrigible and the Incorrigible
Explores how the social sciences and clinical medicine contributed to the understanding and treatment of offenders in three disparate political regimes
A Gift from Darkness
When Patience Ibrahim's husband died, she feared that her life was over. She had prayed every night for a baby to complete her family, and suddenly she found herself a nineteen-year-old widow, alone in the world. But when she fell in love again, a happy future seemed possible. Patience married once more , and was overjoyed to discover that she was pregnant. A few days later, everything fell apart. Men from Boko Haram arrived at her door, killing Patience's new husband and kidnapping her. This is the incredible true story of her and her baby daughter's survival, against all the odds.
A Feminist Companion to Exodus to Deuteronomy
The studies in this collection, reflecting recent developments in feminist exegesis in Europe and the United States, comprise three 'revisits': the first, to Exodus and Moses, includes Susanne Scholz on a literary feminist reading of Exodus, Harold Washington on Exodus and Zora Neale Hurston's 'Moses, Man of the Mountain', Ilona Rashkow on 'Oedipus Wreckes: Moses and God's Rod', and 'Divine Puppeteer: Yahweh of Exodus' by Cheryl Kirk-Duggan. The second revisit, to Miriam, comprises 'Miriam' by Phyllis Silverman Kramer, 'Miriam Re-Imagined, and Imaginary Women of Exodus in Musical Settings' by Helen Leneman, Alice Bach, 'Dreaming of Miriam's Well' and Irmtraud Fischer on 'The Authority of Miriam'. The third revisit is to Daughters, where Tal Ilan writes on the daughters of Zelophehad and Leila Bronner on' Serah and the Exodus'.
Recht und Gerechtigkeit
Bei der strafrechtlichen Aufarbeitung von Diktaturen gibt es ein grundsätzliches Problem. Es ist nicht Aufgabe des Strafrechts Gerechtigkeit herzustellen, sondern individuelle Schuld festzustellen und zu sanktionieren. Der Band beleuchtet die strafrechtliche Verfolgung von NS-Verbrechen in beiden deutschen Staaten und die Aufarbeitung des DDR-Unrechts nach der Wiedervereinigung. Zudem nimmt er die juristische Verfolgung von Diktaturverbrechen in Ostmittel-, Süd- und Südosteuropa genauer in den Blick. So wird die Praxis strafrechtlicher Aufarbeitungsbemühungen in Polen, Bulgarien, Rumänien, Spanien und Griechenland analysiert und damit ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Diskussion über Möglichkeiten und Grenzen strafrechtlicher Diktaturaufarbeitung in Europa geleistet.
Geschichten aus Byblos
Seit vielen tausend Jahren ist die Stadt Byblos an der Mittelmeerküste Libanons durchgehend bewohnt. Was für Geschichten spielten sich da ab! Einige habe ich aufgeschrieben. Bo und seine Homo Sapiens Gruppe begegnen einem Neanderthaler Clan und können einigen von ihnen in einer dramatischen Aktion das Leben retten. Joramu gerät in den Streit der phönizischen Stadtstaaten, rettet sich in einen Tempel und verhindert gemeinsam mit der mutigen Witwe Tamea den Untergang der Stadt.Im Bruderstreit zwischen Markon und Darjos spiegeln sich die Kirchenspaltungen in der Spätantike, während sich in Byblos die halbe Welt trifft. Und die Familie des maronitischen Priesters Elias erlebt den Einbruch der Moderne in das heruntergekommene Städtchen im 19. Jahrhundert und reagiert verblüffend vielfältig darauf. Das alles sieht eine Journalistin unserer Tage, die nach Byblos kommt, um herauszufinden, was den Libanon in den Auseinandersetzungen im Nahen Osten so besonders macht.
