[ecrea] New book: Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age

A new publication from Stanford University Press

Free postage to UK customers

http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/holocaust-memory-in-the-digital-age-survivors-stories-and-new-media-practices**

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*Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age***

*Survivors’ Stories and New Media Practices***

/Jeffrey Shandler///

    "In his probing and clear-eyed inquiry into how and what we learn 
from Holocaust video testimonies, Jeffrey Shandler gives visual history 
archives of the Holocaust new life in our 'digital age.' A must-read for 
anyone viewing, teaching, or writing about Holocaust video 
testimony."--James E. Young, University of Massachusetts

    "Jeffrey Shandler once again brings his erudite, incisive mind to 
address the intersections of media, memory, and recent Jewish history 
and its memorialization. Diving deep into the Shoah Foundation's Visual 
History Archive, Shandler explores the project's mission to provide an 
invaluable record of those who witnessed the unspeakable, while 
deploying digital technologies as a bulwark against racism and 
hate."--Faye Ginsburg, New York University

/   Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age/ explores the nexus of new media 
and memory practices, raising questions about how advances in digital 
technologies continue to influence the nature of Holocaust 
memorialization. Through an in-depth study of the largest and most 
widely available collection of videotaped interviews with survivors and 
other witnesses to the Holocaust, the University of Southern California 
Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive, Jeffrey Shandler weighs the 
possibilities and challenges brought about by digital forms of public 
memory.

    The Visual History Archive's holdings are extensive—over 100,000 
hours of video, including interviews with over 50,000 individuals—and 
came about at a time of heightened anxiety about the imminent passing of 
the generation of Holocaust survivors and other eyewitnesses. Now, the 
Shoah Foundation's investment in new digital media is instrumental to 
its commitment to remembering the Holocaust both as a subject of 
historical importance in its own right and as a paradigmatic moral 
exhortation against intolerance. Shandler not only considers the Archive 
as a whole, but also looks closely at individual survivors' stories, 
focusing on narrative, language, and spectacle to understand how 
Holocaust remembrance is mediated.

*Jeffrey Shandler* is Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. 
He is the author of numerous works, including /Shtetl: A Vernacular 
Intellectual History/ (2014) and /Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and 
Media in America/ (2009).

Stanford University Press | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and 
Culture | August 2017 | 232pp | 9781503601956 | HB | £70.00*

20% discount with this code: CSL17HMDA**

*Price subject to change.

  **Offer excludes the USA, South America and Australia.


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