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Through the Eyes of a Child

''Diary of an Eleven Year Old Jewish Girl''

By: Ilse Reiner

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Through the Eyes of a Child

''Diary of an Eleven Year Old Jewish Girl''

By: Ilse Reiner

Ilse, who was 21⁄2 months short of her twelfth birthday, was deported from the Jewish orphanage in Prague in mid-October, 1942. She arrived in the concentration camp Terezin, called by the Nazis the “Jewish paradise,” when in reality it was the gateway to Auschwitz. Today when Ilse speaks to various groups, mainly school children, she refers to this place as “the center of foolery.” She is one of the hundred children out of fifteen thousand who survived Terezin and the horrific typhus epidemic which took the lives of many. Deported for the second time, she found herself in Birkenau/Auschwitz where she passed the inspection at the selection site in front of the infamous Dr. Mengele, who decided who was to live and who was to die. Ilse was sent to a slave labor camp in Silesia named Kurzbach bei Trachtenberg. What helped to save her life at the selection site, was saying that she was eighteen when in fact she was only fourteen as she was forewarned to say by an inmate of the camp who helped at the train station with new arrivals. Miraculously, it worked! She later escaped from the death march heading for the Gross Rosen concentration camp with two other women and hid in a cellar on a farm amidst piles of potatoes and burlap bags. When the Russian military arrived a few days later, she masqueraded among the soldiers as a young male. After she learned of the war ending, she and her friends walked for some distance towards the Czech border, where she fainted. When she awoke she found herself in a Red Cross van heading towards Prague where she was hospitalized for three months. Thereafter she returned to her hometown of Vsetin where she lived with a Christian family with five children of their own, who were former friends of her mother and her as well. Ilse immigrated to the USA in mid-October 1946 and resided with her mother’s brother and his American wife.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669854248

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9781669854241

The Female Crucifix

Images of St. Wilgefortis Since the Middle Ages

By: Ilse E. Friesen

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The Female Crucifix

Images of St. Wilgefortis Since the Middle Ages

By: Ilse E. Friesen

Featuring more than twenty illustrations, including several works of art that were rediscovered by the author and are published here for the first time, The Female Crucifix: Images of St. Wilgefortis Since the Middle Ages provides a new perspective on a very old phenomenon. The legendary bearded female St. Wilgefortis, also known by a variety of other names including “Kummernis” and “Uncumber,” was the object of fervent veneration in areas of Western and Central Europe for almost half a millennium. Beginning in the fifteenth century, the legend of her dramatic transformation from a beautiful, privileged princess into a bearded, Christlike martyr on the cross inspired scores of paintings, sculptures, poems, prayers and shrines in her honour all across Europe. In spite of frequent opposition by the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, her cult of veneration at one point nearly rivaled that of the Virgin Mary in some parts of Europe. In this informative and groundbreaking new book, Professor Ilse E. Friesen examines the phenomenon of St. Wilgefortis from an art historical perspective, tracing the origins of depictions of the saint from an early medieval Italian statue known as Volto Santo, or “holy face,” through the emergence of increasingly feminized crucifixes over the course of the subsequent centuries. In particular, Professor Friesen focuses on an analysis of paintings, sculptures and frescoes originating in the German-speaking regions of Bavaria and Tyrol, where the veneration of the saint attained its peak. With its emphasis on art as situated in the context of religion, spirituality, mythology, popular literature and gender relations, this book will have wide appeal.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889209391

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9780889209398

The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile, 1919–1939 (paperback)

By: Ilse Josepha Lazaroms

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The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile, 1919–1939 (paperback)

By: Ilse Josepha Lazaroms

In The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile 1919–1939 Ilse Josepha Lazaroms offers an account of the life and intellectual legacy of Joseph Roth, one of interwar Europe's most critical and modern writers.

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BRILL

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9004241752

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9789004241756

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Through the Eyes of a Child

Through the Eyes of a Child

The Female Crucifix

The Female Crucifix

The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile, 1919–1939 (paperback)

The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile, 1919–1939 (paperback)

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