Narrating the Holocaust

Narrating the Holocaust
Author: Andrea Reiter
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2004-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1847144225

In this literary study of memoirs describing at first hand the horrors of German concentration camps, the principal question asked is: How did the survivors find the words to talk about experiences hitherto unknown, even unimaginable? Beyond being a mere analysis of discourse, Narrating the Holocaust reflects the situations in camp that triggered these responses, and shows how the professional authors adapted certain literary genres (e.g. the travel story, the Hassidic tale) to serve as models for communication, while the vast majority who were not trained as writers merely used the form of the report. A comparison between these memoirs and the more frequently discussed camp novel identifies the different narrative strategies by which the two are determined. Most of the 130 texts discussed here were published in German between l934 and the present; some famous Italian, French and Polish texts have also been included for comparison.

The War in Their Minds

The War in Their Minds
Author: Svenja Goltermann
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2017-01-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472118978

A pathbreaking study of the psychic afflictions of German soldiers returning from the Second World War

The Psychology Of Philosophers

The Psychology Of Philosophers
Author: Herzberg, Alexander
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1136323201

First Published in 1999. This is Volume XIII of thirty-eight in the General Psychology series. Written in 1929, the purpose of this book is to supply the deficiency and to answer the question why anyone constructs an outlook on life for himself or, to be more precise, becomes a philosopher.

Medical and Psychological Effects of Concentration Camps on Holocaust Survivors

Medical and Psychological Effects of Concentration Camps on Holocaust Survivors
Author: Robert Krell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2019-01-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351291823

This unique research bibliography is offered in honor of Leo Eitinger of Oslo, Norway. Dr. Eitinger fled to Norway in 1939, at the start of the World War II. He was caught and deported to Auschwitz, where, among others, he operated on Elie Wiesel who has written the foreword to this volume. After the war, Eitinger became a pioneering researcher on a subject from which many shied away. His contributions to understanding of the experience of massive psychological trauma have inspired others to do similar work. His many books and papers are listed in this special volume of the acclaimed bibliographic series edited by Israel W. Charny of The Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem. In order to acquaint users of this bibliography with the topic, two introductory articles are offered. The first is titled "Survivors and Their Families" and deals with the impact of the Holocaust on individuals. The second, "Psychiatry and the Holocaust," examines the general impact of the Holocaust on the field of psychiatry. Robert Krell writes that in general the psychiatric literature has reflected critically on the survivor due to preconceived notions held by many mental health professionals. For many years, the exploration of victims' psychopathology obscured the remarkable adaptation made by some survivors. The problems experienced by survivors and possible approaches to treatment were entirely absent from mainstream psychiatric textbooks such as the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Fifty years of observations about survivors of the concentration camps and other survivors of the Holocaust (in hiding, as partisans, in slave labor camps) has provided a new body of medical and psychiatric literature. This comprehensive bibliography contains a plethora of references to significant pieces of literature regarding the Holocaust and its effects on survivors. It will be of inestimable value to physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers, along with historians, sociologists, and Holocaust studies specialists.

Electrified Voices

Electrified Voices
Author: Dmitri Zakharine
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2013
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3847100246

The aim of this book is to explore the phenomenon of the electrified voice through interdisciplinary approaches such as media and technology studies, social history, and comparative cultural studies. The book focuses on three problem clusters: reflections on the societal level about the task of electronic voice transmission; the mediation of gender- and occupation-specific vocal stereotypes in audio and audio-visual formats; and the genesis of such vocal stereotypes in national radio and film cultures. Such a historicizing approach to societal experience in the field of voice mediation, including the use and interpretation of voice media, is today of great relevance in light of the collective learning processes currently triggered by rapid advances in technology.