Hannah Pollin-Galay
Biographic Data
| ID | 1555378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannah Pollin-Galay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollin-Galay |
| SIGNATURE | POLLIN-GALAY H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Rubric of Pain Words
During and immediately after World War II, East European Jewish intellectuals perceived a radical transformation in the Yiddish language. This perception inspired some to create dictionaries or glossaries that could map and decode these new linguistic developments. While these glossarists approached the Holocaust Yiddish vocabulary from different conceptual and political positions, their texts nonetheless point to common words, themes, and pressu…
Holocaust History and the Readings of Ka-Tzetnik
Ecologies of Witnessing
This book reassesses contemporary Holocaust testimony, focusing on the power of language and place to shape personal narrative. Oral histories of Lithuanian Jews serve as the textual base for this exploration. Comparing the remembrances of Holocaust victims who remained in Lithuania with those who resettled in Israel and North America after World War II, the analysis reveals meaningful differences based on where they chose to live out their postw…
Ecologies of Witnessing
The Epic Demands of Postwar Yiddish
Avrom Sutzkever’s epic poem Geheymshtot (Secret City) was considered a masterpiece at the time that it was published, but has been virtually ignored since. This article reads the poem as a deliberation on the possibilities of home for Jews after the Holocaust. The poem makes large demands of its readership, asking cosmic questions about love, the relationship between humans and the natural world, and the ethics of preserving history. Extrapolatin…
Reframing Holocaust TestimonyNoah Shenker
Shenker's well-researched monograph is the latest work on a topic that deserves re-examination: the creation and use of Holocaust video testimony in the so-called “era of the witness.” The global effort to film Holocaust testimony that began (roughly) in the late 1970s and peaked in the 1990s constituted a historical event in its own right, as Annette Wieviorka has argued.1 During this time, scholars such as Geoffrey Hartman,2 Lawrence Langer,3 S…
Out of Chaos
This anthology is aptly titled. The volume pulls together the life stories of twenty-four different American Jews who survived the Holocaust as children, bringing their stories, quite literally, Out of Chaos and into print. But, beyond offering a fine teaching tool for Holocaust or Life-Writing classes, the anthology challenges us to think about the conditions of memory for American Jewish Holocaust survivors in the twenty-first century. On the b…
Naming the Criminal
Psychoanalyst Dori Laub asserts that for camp inmates the Holocaust extinguished the possibility of “I-thou” interaction. Address and response, the basis of human subjectivity, became impossible for the prisoner to imagine. The author of this article uses victims’ descriptions of perpetrators to investigate this assertion. Do survivors at times conceive of a wartime assailant as “you”—as an addressable human agent? Comparing two clusters of testi…
Soviet Baby Boomers
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Naming the Criminal
Psychoanalyst Dori Laub asserts that for camp inmates the Holocaust extinguished the possibility of “I-thou” interaction. Address and response, the basis of human subjectivity, became impossible for the prisoner to imagine. The author of this article uses victims’ descriptions of perpetrators to investigate this assertion. Do survivors at times conceive of a wartime assailant as “you”—as an addressable human agent? Comparing two clusters of testi…
Soviet Baby Boomers
Reframing Holocaust TestimonyNoah Shenker
Shenker's well-researched monograph is the latest work on a topic that deserves re-examination: the creation and use of Holocaust video testimony in the so-called “era of the witness.” The global effort to film Holocaust testimony that began (roughly) in the late 1970s and peaked in the 1990s constituted a historical event in its own right, as Annette Wieviorka has argued.1 During this time, scholars such as Geoffrey Hartman,2 Lawrence Langer,3 S…
Out of Chaos
This anthology is aptly titled. The volume pulls together the life stories of twenty-four different American Jews who survived the Holocaust as children, bringing their stories, quite literally, Out of Chaos and into print. But, beyond offering a fine teaching tool for Holocaust or Life-Writing classes, the anthology challenges us to think about the conditions of memory for American Jewish Holocaust survivors in the twenty-first century. On the b…
Ecologies of Witnessing
This book reassesses contemporary Holocaust testimony, focusing on the power of language and place to shape personal narrative. Oral histories of Lithuanian Jews serve as the textual base for this exploration. Comparing the remembrances of Holocaust victims who remained in Lithuania with those who resettled in Israel and North America after World War II, the analysis reveals meaningful differences based on where they chose to live out their postw…
Ecologies of Witnessing
The Epic Demands of Postwar Yiddish
Avrom Sutzkever’s epic poem Geheymshtot (Secret City) was considered a masterpiece at the time that it was published, but has been virtually ignored since. This article reads the poem as a deliberation on the possibilities of home for Jews after the Holocaust. The poem makes large demands of its readership, asking cosmic questions about love, the relationship between humans and the natural world, and the ethics of preserving history. Extrapolatin…
Holocaust History and the Readings of Ka-Tzetnik
A Rubric of Pain Words
During and immediately after World War II, East European Jewish intellectuals perceived a radical transformation in the Yiddish language. This perception inspired some to create dictionaries or glossaries that could map and decode these new linguistic developments. While these glossarists approached the Holocaust Yiddish vocabulary from different conceptual and political positions, their texts nonetheless point to common words, themes, and pressu…
History (5 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (5 works) · The Holocaust (5 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works)