Witnessing Unbound: Holocaust Representation and the Origins of Memory

Author:   Henri Lustiger Thaler ,  Habbo Knoch ,  Contributor Lawrence L Langer ,  Contributor Annette Wieviorka
Publisher:   Wayne State University Press
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9780814343012


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 September 2017
Format:   Paperback
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Voices of the Holocaust and the act of memory.

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Author:   Henri Lustiger Thaler ,  Habbo Knoch ,  Contributor Lawrence L Langer ,  Contributor Annette Wieviorka
Publisher:   Wayne State University Press
Imprint:   Wayne State University Press
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9780814343012


ISBN 10:   0814343015
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Language:   English

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With contributions from some of the leading scholars on the subject of Holocaust testimony, Witnessing Unbound is a marvelous collection that takes up the tension between the witness as tale-teller and the witness as truth-teller. Its contributors take up well-known and previously-unexamined texts, documents, and sites in order to better understand the relation between the living and the dead, those who are here and those who are here no longer. - Michael Bernard-Donals, professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison


Through the testimony of survivors of and witnesses to the atrocities, and the work of those who seek them out, the book unveils new insights at a critical moment in the documentation and commemoration of the Holocaust.--David Gottlieb New Books Network (09/20/2017) With contributions from some of the leading scholars on the subject of Holocaust testimony, Witnessing Unbound is a marvelous collection that takes up the tension between the witness as tale-teller and the witness as truth-teller. Its contributors take up well-known and previously-unexamined texts, documents, and sites in order to better understand the relation between the living and the dead, those who are here and those who are here no longer.-- (04/24/2017) The unique approach of Orthodox Jews to the Holocaust finally finds its rightful place. By opening up new sources and approaches, Witnessing Unbound will reshape the study of Holocaust history, memory, and memorialization.-- (04/24/2017) In this moving and insightful book, readers are reminded that the Holocaust is a subject which is far from exhausted. To the contrary, combining examinations of little-known topics with reexaminations of familiar ones, Witnessing Unbound enjoins us not only to research and to commemorate but to grapple with the terrible inexplicability that remains after all attempts to speak of the Holocaust.-- (04/24/2017)


Insightful and thought-provoking reading for anyone researching Holocaust memory and witnessing.--Lucinda Armstrong Journal of Jewish Studies (3/1/2021 12:00:00 AM) Through the testimony of survivors of and witnesses to the atrocities, and the work of those who seek them out, the book unveils new insights at a critical moment in the documentation and commemoration of the Holocaust.--David Gottlieb New Books Network (9/20/2017 12:00:00 AM) In this moving and insightful book, readers are reminded that the Holocaust is a subject which is far from exhausted. To the contrary, combining examinations of little-known topics with reexaminations of familiar ones, Witnessing Unbound enjoins us not only to research and to commemorate but to grapple with the terrible inexplicability that remains after all attempts to speak of the Holocaust.--Dan Stone author of Concentration Camps: A Short History (4/24/2017 12:00:00 AM) The unique approach of Orthodox Jews to the Holocaust finally finds its rightful place. By opening up new sources and approaches, Witnessing Unbound will reshape the study of Holocaust history, memory, and memorialization.--Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett chief curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (4/24/2017 12:00:00 AM) With contributions from some of the leading scholars on the subject of Holocaust testimony, Witnessing Unbound is a marvelous collection that takes up the tension between the witness as tale-teller and the witness as truth-teller. Its contributors take up well-known and previously-unexamined texts, documents, and sites in order to better understand the relation between the living and the dead, those who are here and those who are here no longer.--Michael Bernard-Donals professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison (4/24/2017 12:00:00 AM)


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Henri Lustiger Thaler is a professor of cultural sociology at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He is the chief curator of the Amud Aish Memorial Museum in New York and series editor of Memory Studies: Global Constellations. Habbo Knoch is a professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cologne, Germany. He is the former director of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial Museum. He is the co-editor of Bergen-Belsen.

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