Trajectory of Holocaust Memory - The Crisis of Testimony in Theory and Practice

This book re-considers survivor testimony, moving from a subject-object reading of the past to a subject-subject encounter in the present. It explores how testimony evolves in relationship to the life of eyewitnesses across time.

List of contents

Foreword / Part I: The Crisis of Witness / 1. Name, date, place / 2. What it means, and what it doesn't / 3. The constrained witness / 4. All that is real (and some that is not) / Part II: The Origins of Holocaust Witness / 5. Witness within the Storm / 6. They were not silenced / Part III: Trajectories Beyond the Final Word / 7. Deep inside, I'm still there

About the author

Stephen D. Smith is Executive Director Emeritus, USC Shoah Foundation, and USC Visiting Professor of Religion. His published titles include Never Again Yet Again (2009), The Holocaust and the Christian World (2020), and The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity and Genocide (2021).

Summary

This book re-considers survivor testimony, moving from a subject-object reading of the past to a subject-subject encounter in the present. It explores how testimony evolves in relationship to the life of eyewitnesses across time.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen D. Smith, Stephen D. (Usc Dornsife Smith, Smith Stephen D.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2023
• EAN: 9780367706173
• ISBN: 978-0-367-70617-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Europe, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Jewish, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Religion: general, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Jewish Studies, Fascism & Nazism, Second World War, The Holocaust, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Modern warfare, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, HISTORY / Russia / General