Silent Witnesses: The Testimony of Objects in Holocaust Poetry and Prose

Leora Bilsky, Vered Lev Kenaan

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)379-412
Number of pages34
JournalAmerican Imago
Volume79
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022

Bibliographical note

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The authors would like to thank Gabriel Finder for his invaluable comments, and Katarzyna Czerwonogóra, Olga Kartashova, and Yuval Pesso for their research assistance. This research was supported by the Israel Science Foundation under grants no. 1163/19 and no. 1922/19. La Voix Humaine by J. Cocteau was published in 1928 and premiered in 1930. On the arrival of the telephonic voice in theater, opera, and film, see Friedlander (2005, pp. 113–130). “There was no longer an other to whom one could say ‘thou’” (Laub & Auerhahn, 1989, p. 81).

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Anthropology
  • Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
  • Music
  • Literature and Literary Theory

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