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H eil! " Just a kid. Maybe I mishea rd it. Then I hea rd it again. I looked out
the window into a dark street. There we re three o r fo ur young people.
They shouted it again . Just kids acting up , I told myself. N obody seemed
to be noticing. Besides, if they w ere serio us Slovak N azis, they probably
wo uld have said , " N a Straz." Then I rea li zed w hat I was doing: playing
the mental game known to all Slovak J ews.
Seven leading literary figures
explore the relationship between
political freedom and modern
conceptions of the self as they
address question s of identity,
nationalism, politics, ethks, poetic
language, and freedom.
"Passionate engagement with the
limits of state violence is one of the
most important issues of our time.
This provocative collection of essays
should
be
read by all concerned
with this urgent ethical project."
-PAllI1CIA WILLIAMS,
author of
Alchemy of Race and Rights
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