1st Edition
The Trajectory of Holocaust Memory The Crisis of Testimony in Theory and Practice
By Stephen D. Smith
Copyright 2023
252 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
252 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
252 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The Trajectory of Holocaust Memory: The Crisis of Testimony in Theory and Practice re-considers survivor testimony, moving from a subject-object reading of the past to a subject-subject encounter in the present. It explores how testimony evolves in relationship to the life of eyewitnesses across time.
This book breaks new ground based on three principles. The first draws on Martin Buber’s... Read more
Foreword
Part I: The Crisis of Witness
1. Name, date, place
2. What it means, and what it doesn’t
3. The constrained witness
4. All that is real (and some that is not)
Part II: The Origins of Holocaust Witness
5. Witness within the Storm
6. They were not silenced
Part III: Trajectories Beyond the Final Word
7. Deep inside, I’m still there
Biography
Stephen D. Smith is Executive Director Emeritus, USC Shoah Foundation, and USC Visiting Professor of Religion. His published titles include Never Again Yet Again (2009), The Holocaust and the Christian World (2020), and The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity and Genocide (2021).
