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On listening to Holocaust survivors : recounting and life history
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On listening to Holocaust survivors : recounting and life history

Author: Henry Greenspan
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
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"How do Holocaust survivors find words and voice for their memories of terror and loss? This book presents striking new insights into the process of recounting the Holocaust. While other studies have been based, typically, on single interviews with survivors, this work summarizes twenty years of the author's interviews and reinterviews with the same core group. In this book, therefore, survivors' recounting is  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Interviews
Personal narratives
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Greenspan, Henry, 1948-
On listening to Holocaust survivors.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998
(OCoLC)607068770
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Henry Greenspan
ISBN: 0275957187 9780275957186
OCLC Number: 38215580
Description: xx, 199 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Initiations; The Forms of Recounting - Tellable Beginnings; The Context of Recounting - Survivors and Their Listeners; Voices, Stories and Enactments; A Gathering of Voices; The Stories of the Prosecutor I; The Stories of the Prosecutor II; On Having a Story to Tell; On Listening to Survivors - Some Conclusions.
Responsibility: Henry Greenspan ; foreword by Robert Coles.
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This volume is based on interviews the author has conducted with the same core group of Holocaust survivors for more than two decades. Survivors' recounting is shown to be influenced both by the  Read more...

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schema:reviewBody""How do Holocaust survivors find words and voice for their memories of terror and loss? This book presents striking new insights into the process of recounting the Holocaust. While other studies have been based, typically, on single interviews with survivors, this work summarizes twenty years of the author's interviews and reinterviews with the same core group. In this book, therefore, survivors' recounting is approached not as one-time "testimony" but as an ongoing deepening conversation." "Listening to survivors so intensively, we hear much that we have not heard before. We learn, for example, how survivors perceive us, their listeners, and the impact of listeners on what survivors do, in fact, retell. We meet the survivors themselves as distinct individuals, each with his or her specific style and voice. As we directly follow their efforts to recount, we see how Holocaust memories challenge their words even now - burdening survivors' speech, and sometimes fully consuming it."--BOOK JACKET."
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