Matters of Testimony

Nicholas Chare is Associate Professor of Art History at the Universite de Montreal. He is the author of Auschwitz and Afterimages: Abjection, Witnessing and Representation and After Francis Bacon: Synaesthesia and Sex in Paint, and the co-editor, with Dominic Williams, of Representing Auschwitz: At the Margins of Testimony.Dominic Williams is a Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds. He has published articles on modernism, the First World War, contemporary poetry and the Holocaust. In addition to co-editing Representing Auschwitz, he has co-edited, with Fabio A. Durao, Modernist Group Dynamics: The Politics and Poetics of Friendship.

"Chare and Williams have applied a multidisciplinary approach using methods drawn from history, literature, art, psychology, photography, and the study of material culture to analyze these documents, which are often referred to as the Scrolls of Auschwitz, an allusion to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Like the Dead Sea Scrolls, the damaged documents are often very difficult to read and interpret. A valuable contribution to Holocaust scholarship, the field of eyewitness testimony, and the documentation of traumatic events... Highly Recommended." Choice

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: Matters of TestimonyChapter 1. Matters of HistoryChapter 2. Zalman Gradowski: Literature in the Death FactoryChapter 3. Scattered Selves: The Stories of Leyb LangfusChapter 4. Final Arrangements: Zalman Lewental's Histories of ResistanceChapter 5. Characters and Letters: Chaim Herman and Marcel NadjaryChapter 6. The Camera Eye: Four Photographs from BirkenauConclusion: Crossing the Circle of FlameAppendixIndex