{"product_id":"the-wonder-of-their-voices-the-1946-holocaust-interviews-of-david-boder-9780199945078","title":"The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder","description":"Over the last several decades, video testimony with aging Holocaust survivors has brought these witnesses into the limelight. Yet the success of these projects has made it seem that little survivor testimony took place in earlier years. In truth, thousands of survivors began to recount their\u003cbr\u003eexperience at the earliest opportunity. This book provides the first full-length case study of early postwar Holocaust testimony, focusing on David Boder's 1946 displaced persons interview project. In July 1946, Boder, a psychologist, traveled to Europe to interview victims of the Holocaust who were\u003cbr\u003ein the Displaced Persons (DP) camps and what he called shelter houses. During his nine weeks in Europe, Boder carried out approximately 130 interviews in nine languages and recorded them on a wire recorder. \u003cbr\u003eLikely the earliest audio recorded testimony of Holocaust survivors, the interviews are valuable today for the spoken word (that of the DP narrators and of Boder himself) and also for the song sessions and religious services that Boder recorded. Eighty sessions were eventually transcribed into\u003cbr\u003eEnglish, most of which were included in a self-published manuscript. Alan Rosen sets Boder's project in the context of the postwar response to displaced persons, sketches the dramatic background of his previous life and work, chronicles in detail the evolving process of interviewing both Jewish and\u003cbr\u003enon-Jewish DPs, and examines from several angles the implications for the history of Holocaust testimony.\u003cbr\u003eSuch early postwar testimony, Rosen avers, deserves to be taken on its own terms rather than to be enfolded into earlier or later schemas of testimony. Moreover, Boder's efforts and the support he was given for them demonstrate that American postwar response to the Holocaust was not universally\u003cbr\u003eindifferent but rather often engaged, concerned, and resourceful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Rosen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199945078\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlan Rosen\u003c\/strong\u003e teaches Holocaust literature at the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Israel. His previous books include \u003cem\u003eSounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDislocating the End: Climax, Closure and the Invention of Genre\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40435097075827,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":76.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_399e734b-3c3f-420e-b60f-933f2d1abcc3.jpg?v=1663076873","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-wonder-of-their-voices-the-1946-holocaust-interviews-of-david-boder-9780199945078","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}