The Wonder of Their Voices - The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder

Zusatztext a beautifully written, thought-provoking account of the interview project. Informationen zum Autor Alan Rosen teaches Holocaust literature at the Yad Vashem, Israel and other Holocaust study centers. His previous books include Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English and and Approaches to Teaching Wiesel's Night. Klappentext Arguing that early postwar Holocaust testimony was plentiful and significant in its own right, Rosen highlights David Boder's 1946 DP interview project, which produced the earliest recordings of Holocaust survivor testimony. Examining the origins and implications of Boder's project, this study compels a new conceptual and historical understanding of Holocaust testimony. Zusammenfassung Arguing that early postwar Holocaust testimony was plentiful and significant in its own right, Rosen highlights David Boder's 1946 DP interview project, which produced the earliest recordings of Holocaust survivor testimony. Examining the origins and implications of Boder's project, this study compels a new conceptual and historical understanding of Holocaust testimony. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Boder's Happy Idea Chapter 1: I Could Not Help But Wonder: On Boder's Biography and the Idea of Testimony Chapter 2: Summer, 1946, Part I: The European Expedition and the Ethnography of Testimony Chapter 3: Summer, 1946 Part II: The Expansion of Testimony Chapter 4: From Listening to Reading: Publishing the Interviews Chapter 5: The Wonder of Their Voices: Testimony, Technology and Wire Recorded Narratives Chapter 6: Making a Study of These Things: Boder's Interviews in the Context of Psychology Chapter 7: In Divergent Tongues and Dialects: Multilingual Interviews and Literary Experiments Epilogue: Rewriting the History of Holocaust Testimony Appendix I: Chronology of Interviews: July 29-October 4, 1946 Appendix II: The Disputed Number of Boder Interviews Appendix III: Topical Autobiographies of Displaced People: Volumes I through XVI Notes Bibliographic Note Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Alan Rosen, Alan (Lecturer in Holocaust Literature Rosen, Rosen Alan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2012
• EAN: 9780199945078
• ISBN: 978-0-19-994507-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Print on Demand; Oxford Oral History Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; memory, Oral History, Europe, HISTORY / Social History, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Cognition and cognitive psychology, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater