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Author Rosen, Alan (Alan Charles)

Title The wonder of their voices : the 1946 Holocaust interviews of David Boder / Alan Rosen
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford oral history series
Oxford oral history series.
Contents 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
Summary Arguing that early postwar Holocaust testimony was plentiful and significant in its own right, Rosen highlights the Russian-born American psychologist David Boder, who in 1946 was among the earliest to interview Holocaust survivors in DP camps and, as far as we know, the first to audio record their testimony
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Boder, David P. (David Pablo), 1886-1961.
SUBJECT Boder, David P. (David Pablo), 1886-1961 fast
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism
Holocaust survivors -- Interviews
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Interviews
Oral history.
Interviews -- History -- 20th century
Psychologists -- United States -- Biography
Biographers -- United States -- Biography
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
Biographers
Holocaust survivors
Interviews
Oral history
Psychologists
Refugees
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Interviews
Personal narratives
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Oxford University Press
ISBN 9780195395129
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