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Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
Nicholas Chare
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Paperback. In 1944, a number of Sonderkommando-"special squads" of Jewish prisoners who kept the gas chambers running smoothly-buried on the grounds of Auschwitz a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts. This study reconstructs their history and textual content, revealing literary works that raise troubling questions about the nature of testimony. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785333521
SKU
V9781785333521
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About Nicholas Chare
Nicholas Chare is Associate Professor of Art History at the Universite de Montreal. 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. Dominic Williams is a Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies at ... Read more
Reviews for Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
This is a major book that changes the field. It is a brilliant and original work of superb historical research and profoundly affecting cultural analysis.
Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds The authors' analyses are meticulous and fascinating, and are invariably based on equally impressive research. It is unusual to be able to say that an academic monograph ... Read more
Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds The authors' analyses are meticulous and fascinating, and are invariably based on equally impressive research. It is unusual to be able to say that an academic monograph ... Read more