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Elzbieta Ettinger (1925–2005)

Autor von Hannah Arendt - Martin Heidegger. Eine Geschichte

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Rosa Luxemburg: A Life (1986) 73 Exemplare
Kindergarten (1986) 18 Exemplare
Quicksand (1989) 1 Exemplar

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Geburtstag
1925-09-19
Todestag
2005-03-12
Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
Poland (birth)
USA (naturalized)
Geburtsort
Warsaw, Poland
Sterbeort
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Wohnorte
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Warsaw, Poland
Ausbildung
Warsaw University, Poland
Jagellonian University
Berufe
philologist
literature professor
novelist
Holocaust survivor
resistance fighter
biographer (Zeige alle 8)
journalist
translator
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Elżbieta Ettinger was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland (some sources say Łódź). Her parents were Regina Stahl and Emmanuel Ettinger. Along with the rest of her family, she was confined to the Warsaw Ghetto after Nazi Germany's invasion in World War II. In 1942, she managed to escape the ghetto with her mother and, using forged identity papers, adopted the identity of Elżbieta Chodakowska. She then worked with the Polish Resistance and engaged in sabotage activities. In 1943, she married a partisan named Gierek; the couple separated after the war. She later had a relationship with Manfred Lachs, a university professor, with whom she had a daughter. In 1946, Elzbieta received a degree in English and German philology from Jagellonian University in Kraków and in 1949 a master's degree in English philology from Warsaw University. In 1966, she earned a PhD in English and American literature from Warsaw University. During these years, she worked as a journalist, translator, editor, researcher, and government employee. Rising anti-Semitism in Poland contributed to her decision to emigrate to the USA in 1967. She was a senior fellow at the Radcliffe (now Bunting) Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts until 1974. In 1975, she became a writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a post she held for nearly 20 years until her retirement. She also became a well-known novelist and biographer. She helped establish MIT's Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and was named Thomas Meloy Professor of Rhetoric and Literature. She also taught at the Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill and at the Harvard Extension School. Prof. Ettinger chronicled her experiences during World War II in her first book, the novel Kindergarten, published in 1968. Her second novel, Quicksand, published in 1989, described her life in post-war Poland. In 1987, she published a biography called Rosa Luxemburg, A Life. In 1995, she published the controversial biography Hannah Arendt-Martin Heidegger.

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This seems, to me, to be a very honest biography. Too often, a biography is written by someone wishing to lionise, or destroy their subject. Rosa comes out of this book as a human being: some great acts and some less worthy of praise.

Rosa Luxemburg's reading of Communism fascinates me. She fought Lenin for the right of the people to hold, and voice, opinions at odds with the party's. How different the Russian Revolution would have been were her views to have prevailed.

I would hold Luxemburg to be one of the most important voices of the left in the 20th century and, I have yet to find a greater one in the 21st.… (mehr)
 
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the.ken.petersen | 1 weitere Rezension | Apr 8, 2022 |
Figure de proue du socialisme révolutionnaire allemand, adversaire opiniatre de tout dogme rigide, Rosa Luxemburg est devenue un personnage légendaire. On connaft sa polémique avec Lénine, sa critique du Capitai, ses multiples emprisonnements, son assassinat en janvier 1919, à l'age de quarante-neuf anso Mais la plupart de ses biographes ont négligé en elle la femme, au profit du penseur politique. Elle-meme d'origine polonaise, Elzbieta Ettinger a eu accès à des S'ources inédites -lett~s de la famiIle, témoignages -, qui lui ont permis de brosser le portrait intime d'une femme de chair et de sang, très différente de la révolutionnaire stéréotypée souvent dépeinte et ne vivant que pour sa cause, n'aimant que les parias, les oiseaux et les fleurs. Rosa Luxemburg apparait ici comme une intellectuelle cultivée, à la personnalité complexe, très marquée par son handicap physique -elle boitait -et par l'ambivalence de son attitude à l'égard de ses originesjuives et polonaises. Une femme amoureuse, tourmentée, en proie au doute, animée par le souci très moderne de concilier une carrière professionnelle brillante et une vie personnelle accomplie. Une femme dont la pensée suscite un intéret croissant, à l'heure où les bouleversements en Europe de l'Est viennent en quelque sorte illustrer sa théorie de la "révolution spontanée".

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Figura chiave del socialismo rivoluzionario tedesco, avversaria d' opinione del dogma rigido, Rosa Luxemburg è divenuta un personaggio legendario. Conosciuta è la sua polemica con Lénin, la sua critica a "Il Capitale", le sue prigionie, il suo assassinio nel gennaio del 1919, a l'età di 49 anni. Ma la maggior parte della biografia offusca la sua femminilità a fronte del suo pensiero politico.
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BiblioLorenzoLodi | 1 weitere Rezension | May 23, 2014 |
* Inherited from Mum's shelves.
 
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