Testimonial Montage

A Family of Israeli Holocaust Testimonies from the Cracow Ghetto Resistance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Testimonial Montage: A Family of Israeli Holocaust Testimonies from the Cracow Ghetto Resistance explores interconnected testimonies of four Holocaust survivors who were members of the Akiva youth group in Cracow, Poland, who participated in the ghetto resistance. Drawing on literary and photographic discourse, Jelen extracts the contours of personal narrative from the collective voice present in these interconnected testimonies. Attuned to stories of lost youth, sexual exploitation, and the dissolution of community and family, Jelen approaches Holocaust testimonies as one would members of a family with their shared experiences and common background, but also as individuals with their own unique voices. Departing from historical methodologies, Jelen models a different, wholistic approach to Holocaust testimonies, one which seeks to make sense of testimonies in the full breadth of their unfolding, across time, across space, and across genre.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-05-03
Mått:159 x 236 x 23 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666907445

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Sheila E. Jelen is Zantker Professor of Jewish literature, culture and history at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and the director of the Jewish studies program.

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Sheila Jelen skillfully and sensitively creates a compelling intertextuality between testimonies given by the same group of people at different times, for different purposes, and in different formats. She develops a fascinating close reading of this ‘family of testimonies’ as literary palimpsests that invite her readers to engage deeply with the people, the historical and continuing trauma, the events, and the past and present contexts of witnessing.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: The Cracow Ghetto Resistance and Its TestimoniesChapter 1: “Sovereign Consciousness”: Photography and Audiovisual TestimoniesChapter 2: “We Knew We Could Never Triumph”: Hela Schüpper-Rufeisen (1921–2017)Chapter 3: “The Accident Which Pursues the Witness”: Rivka Kuper (1920–2007)“The Accident Which Pursues the Witness”: Rivka Kuper (1920–2007)Chapter 4: “I Ran Around between the Legs of All the Elders”: Yehudah Maimon (1924–2020)Chapter 5: “So That My Death Will Be Sweet”: Shifra Lustgarten (1923–99)Postscript: “A Delicate Knowledge”

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