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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 Over the last several decades, video testimony with aging Holocaust survivors has brought these witnesses into the limelight. Yet the success of these projects has made it seem that little survivor testimony took place in earlier years. In truth, thousands of survivors began to recount their experience at the earliest opportunity. This book provides the first full-length case study of early postwar Holocaust testimony, focusing on David Boder's 1946 displaced persons interview project. In July 1946, Boder, a psychologist, traveled to Europe to interview victims of the Holocaust who were in the Displaced Persons (DP) camps and what he called "shelter houses." During his nine weeks in Europe, Boder carried out approximately 130 interviews in nine languages and recorded them on a wire recorder. Likely the earliest audio recorded testimony of Holocaust survivors, the interviews are valuable today for the spoken word (that of the DP narrators and of Boder himself) and also for the song sessions and religious services that Boder recorded. Eighty sessions were eventually transcribed into English, most of which were included in a self-published manuscript. Alan Rosen sets Boder's project in the context of the postwar response to displaced persons, sketches the dramatic background of his previous life and work, chronicles in detail the evolving process of interviewing both Jewish and non-Jewish DPs, and examines from several angles the implications for the history of Holocaust testimony. Such early postwar testimony, Rosen avers, deserves to be taken on its own terms rather than to be enfolded into earlier or later schemas of testimony. Moreover, Boder's efforts and the support he was given for them demonstrate that American postwar response to the Holocaust was not universally indifferent but rather often engaged, concerned, and resourceful. 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 ...
