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.

In its close examination of Boders unique project, Rosens book becomes the first full-length case study of early Holocaust testimony, and firmly calls into question long-held characterizations of Holocaust testimony as belated rather than immediate.

• 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

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.

In its close examination of Boders unique project, Rosens book becomes the first full-length case study of early Holocaust testimony, and firmly calls into question long-held characterizations of Holocaust testimony as belated rather than immediate.

• 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

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.

In its close examination of Boders unique project, Rosens book becomes the first full-length case study of early Holocaust testimony, and firmly calls into question long-held characterizations of Holocaust testimony as belated rather than immediate.

• 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