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In its close examination of Boders unique project, Rosens book becomes the first full-length case study of early Holocaust testimony, and firmly calls into question long-held characterizations of Holocaust testimony as belated rather than immediate. * Holli Levitsky, Holocaust and Genocide Studies * a beautifully written, thought-provoking account of the interview project. * Nicholas Chare, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *

<br> Nothing seems more important and meaningful to survivors than to share their experiences. In this volume, the reader will find memories that will enrich his or her understanding of an era filled with pain and anguish. -Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night <br><p><br> As the great ethnographer S. An-ski restored the lost lore of the East European shtetl, and as the martyred historian Emanuel Ringelblum documented the life and death of the Warsaw ghetto, David Boder rescued the living voices of the witnesses to the Holocaust. Thanks to his unique position as an insider-outsider, as an American in Paris, he alone understood how to capture their story before it was stifled or went stale. Through his meticulously told story, Alan Rosen has secured a permanent place for David Boder in the gallery of heroic and visionary fieldworkers. - David G. Roskies, Jewish Theological Seminary<p><br> Alan Rosen has done us all a favor. Most voices are lost to history. In writing

<br> Nothing seems more important and meaningful to survivors than to share their experiences. In this volume, the reader will find memories that will enrich his or her understanding of an era filled with pain and anguish. -Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night <br> As the great ethnographer S. An-ski restored the lost lore of the East European shtetl, and as the martyred historian Emanuel Ringelblum documented the life and death of the Warsaw ghetto, David Boder rescued the living voices of the witnesses to the Holocaust. Thanks to his unique position as an insider-outsider, as an American in Paris, he alone understood how to capture their story before it was stifled or went stale. Through his meticulously told story, Alan Rosen has secured a permanent place for David Boder in the gallery of heroic and visionary fieldworkers. - David G. Roskies, Jewish Theological Seminary<br> Alan Rosen has done us all a favor. Most voices are lost to history. In writing The Wo

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Alan Rosen is Lecturer in Holocaust Literature, International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Israel. Author, Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English (Nebraska, 2005); Dislocating the End: Climax, Closure and the Invention of Genre (Lang, 2001)

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