Evelyn Wilcock

Historian
M.A. Cantab. Member, Institute of Germanic Studies, London

email: eandcw@aol.com



For Publications read on, or go directly to research interests:
People with One Jewish Parent 1933-45,      Theodor W. Adorno,       Jewish Pacifism.

Bibliography (selected)  

‘Negative Identity: Mixed German Jewish Descent as a Factor in the Reception of Theodor Adorno,’  New German Critique 81 (Fall 2000):169-87.

co-authored with Andreas Kramer, '"A Preserve for Professional Philosophers":Adornos Husserl-Dissertation 1934-37 und ihr Oxforder Kontext'. Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 73.Jhg Sonderheft June 1999, pp.115-161.

'Teaching the Holocaust to Children of Mixed Marriage: Issues in Delivery and Reception.' Journal of Holocaust Education 6/1 Summer 1997, pp. 1-26. publisher Frank Cass.

'Alban Berg's appeal to Edward Dent on behalf of Theodor Adorno, 18 November 1933,' German Life and Letters, 50/3, 1997 pp.365-8

'The Dating of the Seiber/Adorno papers in the British Library'. British Library Journal Vol 23 No.2, Autumn 1997 pp.264-266.

'Adorno, Jazz and Racism: "Über Jazz" and the 1934-7 British Jazz Debate' Telos, 107 pp.63-80, Spring 1996

'Adorno's Uncle: Bernard Wingfield and the English Exile of Theodor Adorno 1934-8,' German Life and Letters, 49/3 July 1996 pp.324-338

'Adorno in Oxford 1: Oxford University Musical Club,' Oxford Magazine, 127, 4th wk Hilary Term 1996 p.11
'Adorno in Oxford 2: A Merton Circle,' Oxford Magazine, 4th week, Trinity Term, 1997 pp.10-12.

Pacifism and the Jews; Studies of Twentieth Century Jewish Pacifists, Hawthorn Press (Stroud), 1992, £9.99. ISBN 1 869 890 48 5. Full details below

'Impossible Pacifism: Jews, the Holocaust and Non-violence' in Murray Polner, Naomi Goodman (eds), The Challenge of Shalom: The Jewish Tradition of Peace and Justice, Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1994. Also available from the Jewish Peace Fellowship at Box 271, Nyack, NY 10960-0271. Contact Joyce Bressler,jpf@forusa.org

'One Jewish Parent: A pilot study'. Review of the Anglo Jewish Association, Vol. 23, 1994

'Robert Lowell, Peace and the Jews', Journal of European Judaism, Vol. 22 No 1 Winter 88/Spring 89

'Who's Holocaust?' review of Emily Praeger, Eve's Tattoo, Chatto, London ,The Jewish Quarterly, Summer 1994
'Don't Kill My Jewish Husband', review of "Resistance of the Heart" by Nathan Stoltzfus (London and New York, 1996) Manna, 55,Spring 1997.
'Shylock, the Assimilated Jew', Manna, No 41, Autumn 1993.

writing up - An archival survey of German and Austrian sources for the research of "Mischlinge" in the Third Reich.

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People with One Jewish Parent 1933-45  


Half-Jews and the Holocaust

A  Project to Document and Examine the Experience of People with One Jewish

Parent under Nazism, 1933 - 1945

Information will be made available only for genuine academic purposes and names withheld from publication where requested. For further details click here. or email eandcw@aol.com

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Theodor W.Adorno  

For published research on Theodor Adorno see bibliography higher on this page.

Adorno himself deserves reading. See Reading Adorno.

And for those to whom Adorno is unknown, "Adorno in Two Minutes" is a not altogether serious introduction to the great man.

Academic entry to these Adorno pages is provided via http://members.aol.com/eandcw/adorno.htm.  For more serious information on the Frankfurt School try Doug Kellner's Critical Theory website at the University of Texas, Austin.

Two web sites for Philosophy

The Philosophy Web Site of Peter Suber, Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana.

Philosophy in Cyberspace. Die Philosophie-Seiten - Ein Verzeichnis für Philosophie im Internet organised by Dieter Köhler at the University of Heidelberg.

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Pacifism and Non-Violence

Pacifism and the Jews; Studies of Twentieth century Jewish Pacifists, Hawthorn Press (Stroud), 1992, Publisher's price £9.99. ISBN 1 869 890 48 5. Available from Amazon.com or bol.com
 

"This book tells the story of some who have embarked on the lonely struggle to proclaim the specifically Jewish basis of their opposition to war.  It is an inspiring story which raises many challenging issues and offers a bridge of understanding between the Jewish world and the secular or Christian pacifist tradition . . .  This is a powerful and thought provoking book, which deserves to be widely read. "  Marion McNaughton, The Friend.

"Covering a period from 1914 to the 1980s, this book offers a social and biographical history of pacifist stances within Judaism. The holy inheritance of the Kabbala, Hasidism and sacred texts are considered alongside secular dilemmas to do with the state and war. This book should meet a particular need in peace studies, social history and theology. It gives insight into an expression of conscience which needs to be heard and the lives of individuals who have sought to give it voice."

Contents

  1. John Harris: Issues in Anglo-Jewish Pacifism 1914-18.
  2. The war-time of Judah Magnes: Jewish Pacifism in the United States 1917-20.
  3. Theory and Practice: Hans Koehn and Enzo Sereni: Secular Pacifism in the Mandate.
  4. The Holy Inheritance: Kabbala, Hasidism and the Guardians of the City
  5. The Land and the People: Judah Magnes in Palestine
  6. Farewell to Innocence: Abraham Cronbach and Conscientious Objection in the Second World War
  7. Conscience or Compliance? Non-Violence and the Holocaust
  8. A Crisis of Conscience: Abraham Heschel and the War in Vietnam
  9. Natan Hofshi and Pacifism in Israel
  10. Appendix. The Religious basis of Jewish Pacifism: Some source texts.

For other reviews click here.

Although not a pacifist,  Rabbi David J. Goldberg , Senior Rabbi of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St. John's Wood Road, London, preached a series of thoughtful and hard hitting sermons questioning the morality and effectiveness of Nato's military intervention in Serbia. His sermon delivered on 14 August 1999, can be read on this site by clicking here.

David J. Goldberg is author of To the Promised Land: A History of Zionist Thought , published by Penguin Books, London and New York, 1996 . Some more recent sermons may be found on the website of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue.

Two web sites for Pacifism

The Jewish Peace Fellowship has a web site http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org/ 

The Peace History Society has a web site http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/Peace/
and the Library Peace Collection site http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/

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updated
Sept. 2001

ECW