{"title":"Appendix 3. Timelines of Vilna, Kovna, and Shavl Ghettos","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300235531-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300235531-011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":270029,"journal":{"name":"Ecologies of Witnessing","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128141332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"4. Accent as Archive: Yiddish and Language Biographies","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300235531-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300235531-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":270029,"journal":{"name":"Ecologies of Witnessing","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128567550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"5. Places and Non-Places","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300235531-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300235531-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":270029,"journal":{"name":"Ecologies of Witnessing","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126661142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1. Bad Testimony: Making and Breaking the Rules of Witnessing","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300235531-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300235531-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":270029,"journal":{"name":"Ecologies of Witnessing","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121042861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300235531-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300235531-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":270029,"journal":{"name":"Ecologies of Witnessing","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124187530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3. The Victim-Perpetrator Encounter","authors":"Hannah Pollin-Galay","doi":"10.12987/9780300235531-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300235531-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":270029,"journal":{"name":"Ecologies of Witnessing","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121794507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accent as Archive: Yiddish and Language Biographies","authors":"Hannah Pollin-Galay","doi":"10.12987/YALE/9780300226041.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/YALE/9780300226041.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the symbolic valences of the Yiddish language in all three ecologies. As idioms of new life, of reordering, the very sounding of English or Hebrew speech on tape establishes a teleological direction in the narrative, foreshadowing different types of language conversion that the witness will undergo at some point in the story. Since oral and video media highlight accents and speech patterns, a tonal Yiddish undercurrent may have a significant impact on testimonial meaning, creating the impression that there is a source language, an alternate voice that haunts the one narrating. If Yiddish embodies a meaning-system that was lost, then quoting, recalling, or ignoring this tongue is a way for witnesses to enact the results of cultural transformation. The chapter then tackles the question of how Yiddish functions as a language of testimony at the end of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first. Here, witnesses make the language into both an artifact of memory and a tool of expression. These Yiddish oral recordings constitute a new chapter in the history of Yiddish oral art.","PeriodicalId":270029,"journal":{"name":"Ecologies of Witnessing","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133552343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Victim-Perpetrator Encounter","authors":"Hannah Pollin-Galay","doi":"10.12987/yale/9780300226041.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300226041.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores witnesses’ notions of culpability and justice in the victim-perpetrator encounter. Within the Yiddish-Lithuanian corpus, the act of identifying guilty parties figures prominently. These locally focused conversations make less room for German perpetrators. Neighbors are both the most human and the most deplorable Holocaust perpetrators. By contrast, the personal-allegorical genre in the American context does not promise to produce the names of guilty parties. Witnesses blame a crisis of values, hate, or antisemitism rather than individual people. Geographic distance makes it less relevant to list the names of guilty neighbors. Contemporary political and economic advantages, being an American citizen, make it less moral to seek retribution. For those participating in the Israeli ecology, depicting the perpetrator often leads to a critique of the Jewish response to victimization. Narratives dwell upon the strategy of the perpetrator—on identifying the system behind his aggression and evaluating it. Some narrators in this ecology emphasize how Holocaust perpetration is common knowledge in Israeli life: The facts of anti-Jewish persecution are already well known, tamed within the space of the national archive, and thus require less forensic energy. ","PeriodicalId":270029,"journal":{"name":"Ecologies of Witnessing","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121434394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}