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Hardy but not hard -a distinction absolutely essential to the education of social professionals, lies at the core of the life and writing of Etty Hillesum and is the heart of any resilience process. In this piece, the author establishes a link between three very different, resilient women: Etty Hillesum, Milena Jesenská and Helen Lewis, who -she says -convey a type of female hope characterized by vitality and tenderness. The dialogues of their lives were not merely historical testimonies of tragic events, but a hymn to life itself issuing from the confinement of the camps. The author looks at what it meant to pay attention right to the very end, and highlights the daily stresses of educational work that can easy lead to burn-out unless competences are built up on the basis of a tender, careful attention to things and people.

Author

Pentini, Anna Aluffi

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN