Henri Lustiger-Thaler and Habbo Knoch, eds., Witnessing Unbound: Holocaust Representation and the Origins of Memory (Wayne State UP, 2017)
\u200b\u200bWitnessing Unbound: Holocaust Representation and the Origins of Memory (Wayne State University Press, 2017) is a \u200bcollection of essays and interviews that offer fresh \u200binsight on the last of the primary witnesses to the Holocaust\u200b. The book interrogates the stylization of the \u200bnarrative \u200baccount of the primary witness, and it offers significant new scholarship on the Halakhic witness\u200b \u2014 Orthodox Jewish prisoners of German concentration camps, who attempted to confront their experience through the framework of Halakhic thought and praxis\u200b. \u200bThe book also provides analysis of the different methods and aims of collecting witness testimony between the Soviet-dominated East and the \u200bAllies of the West. Through the testimony of survivors of and witnesses to the atrocities, and the work of those who seek them out, the book unveils new insights at a critical moment in the documentation and commemoration of the Holocaust. David Gottlieb interviews co-author and co-editor Henri Lustiger-Thaler, professor of cultural sociology at Ramapo College of New Jersey.\n\n\n\nDavid Gottlieb is a PhD Candidate in the History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His research focuses on interpretations of the Binding of Isaac and the formation of Jewish cultural memory. He can be reached at davidg1@uchicago.edu.\n\n\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies