Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz - Softcover

Chare, Nicholas; Williams, Dominic

 
9781785333521: Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz

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The first book-length examination of the significance of the Scrolls of Auschwitz as Holocaust testimony. Discusses the unique insights the Scrolls provide and challenges the idea that most significant Holocaust testimony was produced retrospectively. Examines testimony from both Eastern-European and Greek Jews who were members of the Sonderkommando exploring the heterogeneity of their experiences. Develops innovative interpretations that move beyond debates about authenticity and towards a consideration of questions around material modes of bearing witness.

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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.

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