In May 1941, Gertrude van Tijn arrived in Lisbon on a mission of mercy from German?occupied Amsterdam. She came with Nazi approval to the capital of neutral Portugal to negotiate the departure from Hitler's Europe of thousands of German and Dutch Jews. Was this middle?aged Jewis…
Working with the Nazi-appointed Jewish Council in Amsterdam, Gertrude van Tijn helped many Jews escape. But she faced difficult moral choices. Some called her a heroine; others, a collaborator. Bernard Wasserstein's haunting narrative draws readers into this twilight world, to e…
Working with the Nazi-appointed Jewish Council in Amsterdam, Gertrude van Tijn helped many Jews escape. But she faced difficult moral choices. Some called her a heroine; others, a collaborator. Bernard Wasserstein's haunting narrative draws readers into this twilight world, to e…
Die Aktualität des Denkens von Ilse Arlt
by Pantucek, Peter, Maiss, Maria
fromVS research
Ilse Arlt, Pionierin der österreichischen Sozialarbeit, betrachtete Soziale Arbeit als wissenschaftlich begründete Profession. Mit ihrer kritischen Haltung zur Fürsorge ihrer Zeit, ihrer Bedürfnistheorie und ihrer pädagogischen Tätigkeit lieferte sie originelle Beiträge, die auc…
Die Aktualität des Denkens von Ilse Arlt
by Pantucek, Peter, Maiss, Maria
fromVS research
In Two Shining Souls, Cracraft explores the decades-long encounter of Jane Addams (1860-1935), the famous American social reformer and peace activist, with Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), the acclaimed Russian writer and sage. This hitherto untold story highlights the crisis in global …
In Two Shining Souls, Cracraft explores the decades-long encounter of Jane Addams (1860-1935), the famous American social reformer and peace activist, with Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), the acclaimed Russian writer and sage. This hitherto untold story highlights the crisis in global …
In his new book, Two Shining Souls, James Cracraft explores the decades-long encounter of Jane Addams, the famous American social reformer and peace activist, with Leo Tolstoy, the acclaimed Russian writer and sage. He documents Tolstoy s influence in Progressive-era America and…