Jessica Lang

When Dr. Rugenn finds a unique genetic transcription factor from a discovery long buried in a Norwegian glacier, he can turn on multiple traits left dormant in the human evolution. A new race is reborn: the nocturnals. In this introduction to the series, it is during a science seminar, that Miranda, meets Varian - a noc.

Nocturnal Encounter

Nocs

There are thousands of books that represent the Holocaust, but can, and should, the act of reading these works convey the events of genocide to those who did not experience it? In Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself is a barrier between the author and the reader in Holocaust texts—and that this barrier is not a lack of substance, but a defining characteristic of the genre. Holocaust texts, which encompass works as diverse as memoirs, novels, poems, and diaries, are traditionally characterized by silences the authors place throughout the text, both deliberately and unconsciously. While a reader may have the desire and will to comprehend the Holocaust, the presence of “textual silence” is a force that removes the experience of genocide from the reader’s analysis and imaginative recourse. Lang defines silences as omissions that take many forms, including the use of italics and quotation marks, ellipses and blank pages in poetry, and the presence of unreliable narrators in fiction. While this limits the reader’s ability to read in any conventional sense, these silences are not flaws. They are instead a critical presence that forces readers to acknowledge how words and meaning can diverge in the face of events as unimaginable as those of the Holocaust.

Unreadability and the Holocaust

Textual Silence

Bernhard Schmitz

Janina Linten

Dieses Fachbuch bereitet die Erkenntnisse der Positiven Psychologie, wie sich ein gutes Leben führen lässt und wie Glück und Wohlbefinden entstehen, sehr verständlich für die Anwendung in der Beratungspraxis, der Psychotherapie und der Personalentwicklung auf. Lebenskunst beschreibt einen achtsamen, reflektierten und bewussten Umgang mit sich selbst und mit dem Leben und stellt zugleich eine Schlüsselkompetenz und wichtige Ressource für den Umgang mit den Belastungen einer globalisierten, schnelllebigen Umwelt dar. Erfahren Sie, welche Komponenten das Konzept der Lebenskunst umfasst und wie Sie die berichteten Forschungsergebnisse im alltäglichen Leben, in den Bereichen Schule und Arbeit sowie im klinischen Kontext und im Umgang mit Medien konkret anwenden können.

Positive Psychologie eines gelingenden Lebens – Forschungsstand und Praxishinweise

Psychologie der Lebenskunst

Ezra Cappell

Combines powerful first-person accounts with incisive scholarly analysis to understand the phenomenon of ultra-Orthodox Jews who leave their insular communities and venture into the wider world. In recent years, many formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews have documented leaving their communities in published stories, films, and memoirs. This movement is often identified as “off the derech” (OTD), or off the path, with the idea that the “path” is paved by Jewish law, rituals, and practices found within their birth communities. This volume tells the powerful stories of people abandoning their religious communities and embarking on uncertain journeys toward new lives and identities within mainstream society. Off the Derech is divided into two parts: stories and analysis. The first includes original selections from contemporary American and global authors writing about their OTD experiences. The second features chapters by scholars representing such diverse fields as literature, history, sociology, psychology, anthropology, religion, and gender studies. The interdisciplinary lenses provide a range of methodologies by which readers can better understand this significant phenomenon within contemporary Jewish society. Ezra Cappell is Professor of Jewish Studies and English at the College of Charleston. He is the author of American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction, also published by SUNY Press. Jessica Lang is Professor of English and Director of the Wasserman Jewish Studies Center at Baruch College, City University of New York. She is the author of Textual Silence: Unreadability and the Holocaust.

Jessica Lang

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