TY - BOOK AU - Pfefferkorn, Eli AB - "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." DO - 10.2307/j.ctt1zxsj9r ID - OAPEN ID: 641446 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 797832947 ID - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30895 KW - History KW - Biography KW - Autobiography KW - Israel KW - Jews KW - Judaism KW - The Holocaust L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30895/1/641446.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30895/1/641446.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30895/1/641446.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35708 PB - Academic Studies Press PP - Boston, MA PY - 2011-05-01 SN - 9781618111579;9781618116857;9781618119254 TI - The Muselmann at the Water Coolernull ER -