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

ISBN-13: 9780367706180 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 280 str.

USA) Smith Stephen D. (USC Dornsife

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).