That great mournful past
Subtitle: David Boder and the history of Holocaust testimony
By: Alan Rosen.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780195395129
Subjects: Boder, David P. -- 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
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Boder's happy idea; title: I could not help but wonder : on Boder's biography and the idea of testimony; title: Summer, 1946 : the European expedition and the ethnography of testimony; title: Summer, 1946, pt. 2 : the expansion of testimony; title: From listening to reading : publishing the interviews; title: The wonder of their voices : testimony, technology, and wire recorded narratives; title: Making a study of these things : Boder's interviews in the context of psychology; title: In divergent tongues and dialects : multilingual interviews and literary experiments; title: Epilogue: Rewriting the history of Holocaust testimony; title: Appendix 1: Lists of interviews; title: Appendix 2: The disputed number of interviews; title: Appendix 3: Topical autobiographies table of contents.