Matters of Testimony : Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz

Nicholas Chare

ISBN 10: 1782389989 / ISBN 13: 9781782389989

Editore: Berghahn Books, 2015

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando-the 'special squads,' composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process-buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these 'Scrolls of Auschwitz,' which were gradually recovered, in damaged and fragmentary form, in the years following the camp's liberation. It painstakingly reconstructs their historical context and textual content, revealing complex literary works that resist narrow moral judgment and engage difficult questions about the limits of testimony.

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• Titolo: Matters of Testimony : Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
• Editore: Berghahn Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1782389989
• ISBN 13: 9781782389989
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 235 L x 157 A x 19 P (millimetri) 235 millimetri di larghezza per 157 millimetri di altezza per 19 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 540 grammi

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In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando—the “special squads,” composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process—buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these “Scrolls of Auschwitz,” which were gradually recovered, in damaged and fragmentary form, in the years following the camp’s liberation. It painstakingly reconstructs their historical context and textual content, revealing complex literary works that resist narrow moral judgment and engage difficult questions about the limits of testimony.

Informazioni sugli autori

Dominic Williams is a Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds. He has published articles on modernism, the First World War, contemporary poetry and the Holocaust. In addition to co-editing Representing Auschwitz, he has co-edited, with Fabio A. Durão, Modernist Group Dynamics: The Politics and Poetics of Friendship.

Dominic Williams is a Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds. He has published articles on modernism, the First World War, contemporary poetry and the Holocaust. In addition to co-editing Representing Auschwitz, he has co-edited, with Fabio A. Durão, Modernist Group Dynamics: The Politics and Poetics of Friendship.

Nicholas Chare is Associate Professor of Art History at the Université de Montréal. He is the author of Auschwitz and Afterimages: Abjection, Witnessing and Representation and After Francis Bacon: Synaesthesia and Sex in Paint, and the co-editor, with Dominic Williams, of Representing Auschwitz: At the Margins of Testimony.