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What is the role of survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance?
Today such recollections are considered among the most compelling
and important historical sources we have, but this has not always
been true. In The Era of the Witness, a concise, rigorously argued,
and provocative work of cultural and intellectual history, Annette
Wieviorka seeks to answer this surpassingly complex question. She
analyzes the conditions under which survivor testimonies have been
produced, how they have been received over time, and how the
testimonies shaped the construction of history and collective
memory. Wieviorka discerns three successive phases in the evolution
of the roles and images of the Holocaust witness. The first phase
is marked by the testimony left by those who did not survive the
Holocaust but managed nevertheless to record their experiences. The
second, most important, phase is centered on the Eichmann trial,
which for Wieviorka is the moment (1961 1962) when a broad cultural
deafness to survivors' stories was replaced by the image of the
witness as "bearer of history." The author follows the changing
nature of the witness into a third phase, which she calls "the era
of the witness." Especially concerned with the pedagogical and
political uses to which survivor testimony has been put, Wieviorka
examines factors that determine when and how survivor testimonies
are incorporated into the larger narrative of the Holocaust,
according it a privileged place in our understanding. By exploring
the ways in which the Holocaust is remembered, The Era of the
Witness also deepens our understanding of how testimony can help to
define not only twentieth-century history but also more recent
episodes of mass killing that are only now "becoming history."
The 141st volume of Yale French Studies examines the life and work
of Claude Lanzmann following his masterpiece, Shoah  This
volume of Yale French Studies charts the different paths the
filmmaker Claude Lanzmann (1925–2018) took after the release of
Shoah in 1985. These paths are explored through a consideration of
his late films—Tsahal (1994), A Visitor from the Living (1997),
Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001), Light and Shadows (2008),
The Karski Report (2010), The Last of the Unjust (2013), Napalm
(2017), and Four Sisters (2018)—and of his memoir, The Patagonian
Hare. The volume also includes an English translation of his last
major interview, “Self-Portrait at Ninety.” The original essays
collected here show that Lanzmann’s late films and writing stand
as something more than mere footnotes to his 1985 masterpiece.
Continuing to wrestle with questions of cinematic transmission and
the relationship among film, history, and testimony, they confront
anew and in a variety of approaches the challenge of representing
the Holocaust, and of living in its aftermath.
"You know, a lot of people like to talk about it, and I'm always
pushing, pushing away, you know, I'm always pushing. I hate to
remember, I hate to talk about it." But in the wake of her
husband's death, and afraid that the story would never be told,
Alina Bacall-Zwirn, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto and four Nazi
concentration camps, decided to remember and to bear witness to the
history she and her husband suffered together. In a unique format
that combines personal testimony, photographs, letters, legal
documents and contributions from Alina's family; No Common Place
interweaves a survivor's story with her reflections on the impact
of her traumatic past on herself and her family.As it follows Alina
through conversations with Jared Stark and with interviewers at the
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, and as it
records her participation in the dedication ceremonies of the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum, the books speaks to the importance of
the individual's voice in shaping collective memory of the
Holocaust. The supporting materials-chronology, maps, and
notes-allow the survivor's voice to serve as a guide to the study
of the Holocaust and its aftermath.Alina Bacall-Zwirn was born
Alinka Handszer in Warsaw, Poland, in 1922. Married in the Warsaw
ghetto and a survivor of four Nazi concentration camps, she
immigrated to the United States with her husband in 1949. Alina
died in 1997, one month after completing her testimony. Jared Stark
is Assistant Professor of Literary Cultures at the John W. Draper
Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Humanities and Social Thought
at New York University.
To be or not to be - who asks this question today, and how? What
does it mean to issue, or respond to, an appeal for the right to
die? In A Death of One's Own, the first sustained literary study of
the right to die, Jared Stark takes up these timely questions by
testing predominant legal understandings of assisted suicide and
euthanasia against literary reflections on modern death from the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rigorously interdisciplinary
and lucidly argued, Stark's wide-ranging discussion sheds critical
light on the disquieting bioethical and biopolitical dilemmas
raised by contemporary forms of medical technology and legal
agency. More than a survey or work of advocacy, A Death of One's
Own examines the consequences and limits of the three reasons most
often cited for supporting a person's right to die: that it is
justified as an expression of personal autonomy or self-ownership;
that it constitutes an act of self-authorship, of "choosing a final
chapter" in one's life; and that it enables what has come to be
called "death with dignity. Probing the intersections of law and
literature, Stark interweaves close discussion of major legal,
political, and philosophical arguments with revealing readings of
literary and testimonial texts by writers including Balzac,
Melville, Benjamin, and Amery. A thought-provoking work that will
be of interest to those concerned with law and humanities,
biomedical ethics, cultural history, and human rights, A Death of
One's Own opens new and suggestive paths for thinking about the
history of modern death as well as the unsettled future of the
right to die.
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