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dc.contributor.authorPfefferkorn, Eli
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-06 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-01 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-27 03:00:26
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T13:17:11Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T13:17:11Z
dc.date.issued2011-05-01
dc.identifier641446
dc.identifierOCN: 797832947en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30895
dc.description.abstract"A survivor of concentration camps and the Death March, Eli Pfefferkorn looks back on his Holocaust and post-Holocaust experiences to compare patterns of human behavior in extremis with those of ordinary life. What he finds is that the concentration camp Muselmann, who has lost his hunger for life and is thus shunned by his fellow inmates on the soup line, bears an eerie resemblance to an office employee who has fallen from grace and whose coworkers avoid spending time with him at the water cooler. Though the circumstances are unfathomably far apart, the human response to their situations is triggered by self-preservation rather than by calculated evil. By juxtaposing these two separate worlds, Pfefferkorn demonstrates that ultimately the human condition has not changed significantly since Cain slew Abel and the Athenians sentenced Socrates."
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesReference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
dc.subject.otherHistory
dc.subject.otherBiography
dc.subject.otherAutobiography
dc.subject.otherIsrael
dc.subject.otherJews
dc.subject.otherJudaism
dc.subject.otherThe Holocaust
dc.titleThe Muselmann at the Water Cooler
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.2307/j.ctt1zxsj9r
oapen.relation.isPublishedByffe92610-fbe7-449b-a2a8-02c411701a23
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9781618111579;9781618116857;9781618119254
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.place.publicationBoston, MA
oapen.grant.number101811
oapen.grant.programKU Open Services
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Israel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel; Jews - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews; Judaism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism; The Holocaust - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
oapen.identifier.isbn9781618116857
grantor.number101811
oapen.identifier.ocn797832947


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