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oapen-20.500.12657-308952021-11-09T07:55:48Z The Muselmann at the Water Cooler Pfefferkorn, Eli History Biography Autobiography Israel Jews Judaism The Holocaust "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 life and is thus shunned by his fellow inmates on the soup line, bears an eerie resemblance to an office employee who has fallen from grace and whose coworkers avoid spending time with him at the water cooler. Though the circumstances are unfathomably far apart, the human response to their situations is triggered by self-preservation rather than by calculated evil. By juxtaposing these two separate worlds, Pfefferkorn demonstrates that ultimately the human condition has not changed significantly since Cain slew Abel and the Athenians sentenced Socrates." 2018-01-06 23:55 2017-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-27 03:00:26 2020-04-01T13:17:11Z 2020-04-01T13:17:11Z 2011-05-01 book 641446 OCN: 797832947 9781618111579;9781618116857;9781618119254 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30895 eng Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History application/pdf n/a 641446.pdf https://www.academicstudiespress.com/temp-products/the-mselmann-at-the-water-cooler Academic Studies Press 10.2307/j.ctt1zxsj9r 101811 10.2307/j.ctt1zxsj9r ffe92610-fbe7-449b-a2a8-02c411701a23 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781618111579;9781618116857;9781618119254 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Boston, MA 101811 KU Open Services Knowledge Unlatched open access
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"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 life and is thus shunned by his fellow inmates on the soup line, bears an eerie resemblance to an office
employee who has fallen from grace and whose coworkers avoid spending time with him at the water cooler. Though the circumstances are unfathomably far apart, the human response to their situations is triggered by self-preservation rather than by calculated evil. By juxtaposing these two separate worlds, Pfefferkorn demonstrates that ultimately the human condition has not changed significantly since Cain slew Abel and the Athenians sentenced Socrates."
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