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ANNETTE WIEVIORKA'S THE ERA OE THE WITNESS, TRANSLATED BY JARED STARK, ITHACA: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2006 (ORIGINALLY PARIS: PLON, 1998, IN FRENCH) JUDITH GREENBERG At a moment when increasing attention to testimony, witnessing, trauma, and oral history seem to be expanding and enabling dialogue
The witness delineates parameters of moral responsibility and accountability within which victims’ suffering is acknowledged and mourned. In so doing it symbolizes not only a moral cause, but also the ubiquitous violence that we now perceive as a permanent, recurrent feature of our world.
Jan 1, 2008 · In a lucid and accessible translation by Jared Stark, Annette Wieviorka's The Era of the Witness, originally published in French in 1998, examines the conditions under which testimony, and the...
Mar 7, 2023 · The era of the witness by Wieviorka, Annette. Publication date 2006 Topics Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography Publisher ... SIMILAR ITEMS (based on metadata)
Oct 22, 1998 · In The Era of the Witness, a concise, rigorously argued, and provocative work of cultural and intellectual history, Annette Wieviorka seeks to answer this surpassingly complex question.
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Mar 1, 2008 · As described in a brief introduction, The Era of the Witness is offered in three phases: the first "concerns the testimony left by those who did not survive the events.
In The Era of the Witness, a concise, rigorously argued, and provocative work of cultural and intellectual history, Annette Wieviorka seeks to answer this surpassingly complex question.
