Innovations in Holocaust Testimony
An International Symposium
10:00 – 10:15
Opening Remarks:
Milette Shamir, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of the Humanities, Tel Aviv University
Iris Milner, Literature Department Chair, Tel Aviv University
10:15-11:30
New Voices, New Media, New Memories
Chair: Tamar Setter, Ben Gurion University
Alina Bothe, Freie Universität Berlin
The Digital Turn in Shoah Studies: New Perspectives
on Testimonies
Hannah Pollin-Galay, Tel Aviv University
Each Word is an Archive: Yiddish Memories from Chava Rosenfarb to Digital Video Testimony
Nava Barazani, Hebrew University
On Play and Seriousness: Holocaust Memories from Libyan Jewish Children
11:30-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-13:15:
Thinking Theory with Holocaust Testimony
Chair: Michèle Bokobza Kahan, Chair of the Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University
Iris Milner, Tel Aviv University
Towards a New Ethics of Testimony: On Yael Neeman’s Once There Was a Woman
Uri S. Cohen, Tel Aviv University
Witnessing Friendship and the Project of Survival
Dana Amir, University of Haifa
From the Collapse of Signifiers to the Reconstruction of Language:
A Close Reading of Robert Antelme’s The Human Race
13:15-14:30: Lunch Break
14:30-16:00:
Keynote Address
Dr. Dominic Williams, University of Leeds
The Matter of Testimony: Language and other Media of Transmission from the Scrolls of Auschwitz to Shoah
Response: Havi Dreifuss, Tel Aviv University
Moderator: Hannah Pollin-Galay, Tel Aviv University
16:15-17:30
Mini-Seminar for the Yiddish Studies Graduate Student Forum
Alina Bothe, Freie Universität Berlin
Translating Yiddish in German(y)