“The Witness in the Archive: Holocaust Studies/Memory Studies.” Memory Studies 2(2): 151-170.
Looking at the contradictions in the Holocaust witness testimony, the article discusses the challenges that the Holocaust has brought to the field of memory studies, and the reverse.
‘“Not Living, But Going’: Unheroic Survival Trauma Performance and Video Testimony.” Holocaust Studies 21(4): 215-235.
Analysis of video testimonies of the Holocaust survivors as historical texts, with an emphasis on challenging the trope of “heroic survival.”
Beyond Testimony and Trauma: Oral history in the Aftermath of Mass Violence. UBC Press.
A collection of case studies focusing on oral history in the aftermath of mass violence, including the discussion of collaborative approaches and the political and historical context in which survivors recount their experiences.
Oral History and Public Memories. Temple University Press.
A collection of case studies that explore the relationship between oral history and memory studies; cultural meaning of oral history narratives; the influence of oral history on the creation of cultural heritage; personal testimony vs. public history; memory and mourning; and oral history and activism.
On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Recounting and Life History. Praeger Publishers.
The book offers a psychological perspective about the variety of means the Holocaust survivors employ to recount their traumatic experiences. Includes a discussion of the methodology of doing interviews with Holocaust survivors.
Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History. New York: Praeger.
A canonical work in the field of oral history, this book focuses on oral history theory, with an emphasis on the application of structuralist theory to oral narratives and the idea of an oral history interview being an interactive process.
“Technology, Trauma and Representation: Holocaust Testimony and Videotape.” In Temporalities, Autobiography and Everyday Life, edited by Jan Campbell and Janet Harbord, pp. 204-218. Manchester University Press.
A discussion of an approach to and agenda of the genre of video testimony.
“Shades of Truth and Lies: Interpreting Testimonies of War and Violence.” Journal of Peace Research 47(2): 231-241.
The article discusses so-called “meta-data” in survivor testimonies, that is their spoken and unspoken thoughts and feelings not articulated in their stories or interviews.
Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture. Harvard University Press.
An important collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field that focus on the new forms of Holocaust representation, including the rise of digital archives. The volume explores the politics and ethics of Holocaust memory from the perspective of comparative genocide studies, digital humanities, and media and memory studies.
Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History. Routledge.
The book discusses the relationship between narrative and history, art and memory, and between speech and survival. Written from a literary and clinical perspective, the book represents an endeavor to articulate the relation between witnessing, events, and evidence.