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The Muselmann at the Water Cooler

"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 l...

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Main Author: Pfefferkorn, Eli
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA Academic Studies Press 2011
Series:Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
Subjects:
Biography
Judaism
Jews
Israel
History
Autobiography
The Holocaust
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Collection: Directory of Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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