The Oral History Reader. Routledge.
A collection of major articles on theory, method, and use of oral history. Includes current thinking around traumatic memory, particularly concerning the interpretation of traumatic memories, and truth and inaccuracy in testimony.
Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide. University of California Press.
A book that focuses on 103 testimonies of Armenian genocide survivors, with a reflection on survivor’s responses to the genocide.
Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. Yale University Press.
This is a first book-length study of videotaped testimonies of the Holocaust survivors. It discusses the ideas of Holocaust testimonies as disrupted narratives, the reliability and credibility of memory, and testimony as a form of remembering.
“Holocaust Testimonies: Attending to the Victim’s Voice.” In Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century, edited by Moishe Postone and Eric Santner. Chicago University Press.
“Holocaust Testimony, Ethics, and the Problem of Representation.” Poetics Today 27(2): 275-295.
The article traces the journey of Holocaust testimonies from a marginalized to a recognized subject of historical analysis.
“Memory-Work: Video Testimony, Holocaust Remembrance and the Third Generation.” Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History 13(2-3): 129-150.
An article that focuses on the influence of video testimonies on the “memory work” of Holocaust survivors’ grandchildren.
“Toward an Ethnography of Silence: The Lived Presence of the Past in the Everyday Life of Holocaust Trauma Survivors and Their Descendants in Israel.” Current Anthropology 50(1): 5-27.
Through the examination of ethnographic accounts of Holocaust descendants, this article discusses an ethnography of silence, or silent memory, of Holocaust survivors and the “lived memory” of the traumatic past in the everyday familial life.
“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.