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The wonder of their voices : the 1946 Holocaust interviews of David Boder
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- Creator
- Alan Rosen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780195395129, 0195395123
- OCLC
- ocn504274891
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Boder, David P. (David Pablo), 1886-1961.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism.
- Holocaust survivors -- Interviews -- History and criticism.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Interviews -- History and criticism.
- Oral history.
- Interviews -- History -- 20th century.
- Psychologists -- United States -- Biography.
- Biographers -- United States -- Biography.
- Immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
- Jews -- Latvia -- Liepāja -- Biography.