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  • Joseph Mohr gave the poem of Silent Night (Stille Nacht) to his friend Franz Xavier Gruber and the melody for Silent Night was composed with this in mind.

    The Origins of Five Christmas Carols | myFiveBest 2009

  • The 57-year-old author is most famous for his novels "Die Unvollendeten" ( "The Unfinished") about a German family expelled from its home in 1945, and "Die Stille" ( "Calm"), which accompanies two German families through the 20th century as they experience war, inflation and expulsion.

    Literary Prize: Reinhard Jirgl Wins Prestigious Georg Buechner Yahoo! News 2010

  • Judaism, I came across a book by Alexander Stille called Benevolence and

    A Talk with Mary Doria Russell 2010

  • The 57-year-old author is most famous for his novels "Die Unvollendeten" ( "The Unfinished") about a German family expelled from its home in 1945, and "Die Stille" ( "Calm"), which accompanies two German families through the 20th century as they experience war, inflation and expulsion.

    Literary Prize: Reinhard Jirgl Wins Prestigious Georg Buechner Yahoo! News 2010

  • The key relationships in "Waldgespräch" recall those in the first song in the cycle; likewise, the key relationships in the fourth song, "Die Stille," recall those of the second.

    Categorical denials Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • As my friend Alexander Stille observes in his penetrating history of the Jewish Italian holocaust, Benevolence and Betrayal, “more than 10,000 Jews—about one out of every three Jewish adults—were members of the Fascist Party.”

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • As my friend Alexander Stille observes in his penetrating history of the Jewish Italian holocaust, Benevolence and Betrayal, “more than 10,000 Jews—about one out of every three Jewish adults—were members of the Fascist Party.”

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • The key relationships in "Waldgespräch" recall those in the first song in the cycle; likewise, the key relationships in the fourth song, "Die Stille," recall those of the second.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • In The Future of the Past, Alexander Stille described how the race to preserve archives and collections often overlooked the fact that new methods of preservation were actually inferior to what they were replacing, like that old piece of clay that has housed a love poem for four thousand years and running.

    The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

  • His father, a writer, left Italy in 1941 and married an American woman; the family name was Kamenetzki, but the father wrote as "Ugo Stille" after Jews were forbidden to publish in 1938.

    Stories Out Of The Silence 2008

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