History of Oral History: Foundations and Methodology. AltaMira Press.
Discusses the history of oral history; oral history as evidence; research design and strategies in oral history practice; legal and ethical issues in oral history; oral history interviews; oral history and archives; and the transcription and editing of oral history.
Listening on the Edge: Oral history in the aftermath of crisis. Oxford oral history series. Oxford University Press.
A collection of oral history case studies that focus on the survivors’ stories in the aftermath of crises ranging from genocide to mass shootings around the world.
“Framing the Witness: The Memorial Role of Holocaust Video Testimonies.” In Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide, edited by J.K. Roth, E. Meynard-Maxwell, and M. Levy, pp.189–204. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
A book chapter that discusses the question of video testimony in terms of the difference between its content and its “framing.”
History, Memory, and the Genre of Testimony. Poetics Today 27(2): 261–273.
An important article about the interrelationship between history and memory, and the role of survivor testimony in historiography, with a discussion of the genre of video testimony.
Today we mourn the loss of Hanna Pankowsky, a remarkable woman who gave us her testimony and was one of the subjects in a portrait series of Holocaust survivors painted by David Kassan.
A look over the years at our lay leadership
In 2019, the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research conducted deep and wide-ranging outreach, introducing the Visual History Archive to scholars, academic faculty, fellows, librarians, and students through in-depth workshops, demonstrations, consultations, and class introductions.
We are alarmed by the recent wave of antisemitic violence targeting the Orthodox Jewish communities in the New York region, including at least ten incidents in the past week, culminating in a mass stabbing at a Chanukah celebration within the Monsey home of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg. We mourn for the victims and their families. A voice of conscience calls on all of us to take action against these heinous attacks.