The Lasting Significance of Etty Hillesum’s Writings contains the proceedings of the third international Etty Hillesum Conference, held in Middelburg in September 2018. It brings together the work of 33 experts from all over the world to shed new light on life, works, inspiration and vision of the Dutch Jewish writer Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), one of the victims of the Nazi regime. Hillesum’s diaries and letters illustrate her heroic struggle to come to terms with her personal life in the context of the Holocaust. This volume revives Hillesum research with a comprehensive rereading of her texts but also by introducing new sources about her life. With the current rise of interest in peace studies, Judaism, the Holocaust, inter-religious dialogue, gender studies and mysticism, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars in a range of disciplines.

Contributions by: Nancy Anderson, Fernando Arriero, Emilio Baccarini, Lotte Bergen, Ria van den, Pierre Buehler, John Cartner, Stephen Cherry, Marja Clement, Denise de, Patricia Couto, Maria Essunger, Laura Fasani, Maria Luisarife, Sara Gomel, Maribeth Kallemeyn, Marc LaLonde, Ulrich Lincoln, William McDonough, Barbara Morrill, Alexandra Nagel, Maria Gabriella, Bettine Siertsema , Jurjen Wiersma, Canon Patrick, Lucrezia Zanardi