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Author:
Rosen, Alan (Alan Charles)
Title:
The wonder of their voices : the 1946 Holocaust interviews of David Boder / Alan Rosen.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
xvii, 310 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Boder, David P.--(David Pablo),--1886-1961.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Holocaust survivors--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945--History and criticism.--Interviews--History and criticism.
Oral history.
Interviews--History--20th century.
Psychologists--United States--Biography.
Biographers--United States--Biography.
Immigrants--United States--Biography.
Jews--Liepāja--Liepāja--Biography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Boder's happy idea -- I could not help wondering : on Boder's biography and the idea of testimony -- Summer, 1946, pt. 1 : the European expedition and the ethnography of testimony -- Summer, 1946, pt. 2 : the expansion of testimony -- From listening to reading : publishing the interviews -- The wonder of their voices : testimony, technology, and wire recorded narratives -- Making a study of these things : Boder's interviews in the context of psychology -- In divergent tongues and dialects : multilingual interviews and literary experiments -- Epilogue: Rewriting the history of Holocaust testimony -- Appendix 1: Chronology of interviews: July 29-October 4, 1946 -- Appendix 2: The disputed number of Boder interviews -- Appendix 3: Topical autobiographies of displaced people: volumes I through XVI.
ISBN:
0195395123 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780195395129 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)504274891
LCCN:
2010002987
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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