Innovations in Holocaust Testimony

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)