Elzbieta Ettinger

Elzbieta Ettinger (born September 19, 1925 in Warsaw ; † March 12, 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was a Polish-American university professor and author.

Life

Ettinger survived the German occupation of Poland and the persecution of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto , from which she was able to flee when it was destroyed . She assumed a false identity and joined the Polish armed resistance. After the end of the Second World War she studied in Krakow and then worked for the Polish Ministry of Foreign Trade, which she u. a. sent to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. In 1966 she completed her doctorate in Warsaw and left Poland in 1967 with her five-year-old daughter Maja (* 1962) and her mother. In the United States, she received a position as a Senior Fellow at Radcliffe College of Harvard University . From 1975 Ettinger taught rhetoric , writing and literary studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until her retirement in 1996 as "Thomas Meloy Professor of Rhetoric and Literature" .

Ettinger's biographical works on the relationship between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger and on Rosa Luxemburg have been translated into several languages, while only one of her two autobiographical novels about the Warsaw Ghetto and the early years of the communist regime in Poland has been translated into French. Her academic and literary estate is in the Schlesinger Library at Harvard.

Fonts

• Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger. A story. Translated by Brigitte Stein. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-492-11904-2 .
• Rosa Luxemburg. One life . Translated by Barbara Bortfeldt. Dietz, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-8012-0148-1 .
• Ed. And translation: Comrade and lover: Rosa Luxemburg's Letters to Leo Jogiches. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1979, ISBN 978-0-262-05021-0 (from Polish: Listy do Leona Jogichesa-Tyszki ).
• Kindergarten . Constable, London 1971, ISBN 978-0-09-457650-6 .
  • Les enfants de Varsovie. Éditions Bernard Grasset, Paris 1971.
• Quicksand. Pandora, London 1989 ISBN 978-0-04-440354-8 .

literature

• S. Lillian Kremer: Holocaust Literature. An Encyclopedia of writers and their Work. Vol. 1: Agosin to Lentin. Routledge, New York 2003, ISBN 0-415-92983-0 , pp. 318-321.

Web links

• Brief bio Ettinger, Elzbieta at Information Philosophy
• Short bio Elzbieta Ettinger (1925–2005) at Cultuurarchief (nl)
• Obituary Elzbieta Ettinger, writing professor, novelist, dies at 80 and photo at MITnews

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Schlesinger Library is donated by the father Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. of the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger , see English Wikipedia en: Schlesinger Library .