Henry Greenspan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3876099 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Henry Greenspan |
| NOMBRES | Henry |
| APELLIDO | Greenspan |
| FIRMA | GREENSPAN H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Michigan. Residential college.East Quad. 701 E. University Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1245. |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
An Interview with Henry ‘Hank’ Greenspan
Kobi Kabalek interviews Henry (Hank) Greenspan about his sustained collaborations with Holocaust survivors, his questioning of conventional concepts in the field such as 'testimony' and 'trauma,' his convictions and strategies as a teacher, and his drive to embody some of what he has learned in playwriting and dramatic performance. Among other provocative assertions, Greenspan suggests that all work in Holocaust Studies is inevitably some version…
Buried Words
This Forum is a discussion among six contributors deeply familiar with the challenges of analyzing survivor testimony, each with a distinct methodological approach to the topic of sexual violence and the Holocaust. Topics addressed in the discussion include the challenges posed by studying survivor testimonies to learn about sexual violence, the theme of silence and how scholars can mitigate the role they play in reinforcing it, how gender as a c…
The Humanities of Contingency
Engaging Holocaust survivors primarily as “witnesses” who provide “testimony”—which has long been the prevailing paradigm of practice with sur- vivors—radically oversimplifies both survivors’ lives and their accounts of their lives. Similarly, the conventional “testimony” model limits the extent to which we are likely to become engaged in, and implicated by, survivors’ retelling. I have been making those arguments for over forty years. Here, the …
The Unsaid, the Incommunicable, the Unbearable, and the Irretrievable
Drawing on forty years of interviewing Holocaust survivors—in most cases, multiple interviews with the same survivors over months, years, even decades—this article elucidates the range and complexity of different kinds of silence in survivors’ spoken accounts. Although most often invoked in connection with survivors’ silence, psychic trauma does not play a central role in this analysis. Indeed, discourse about trauma has tended to distract from a…
Collaborative Interpretation of Survivors’ Accounts
Interpretation of Holocaust survivors’ accounts based on one-time ‘testimonies’, without knowing the multiple versions of a survivor’s account, its permutations in time and interpersonal space, and in the absence of engaging a survivor’s own reflections on those permutations, can lead us seriously astray. Based on his nearly 40 years of interviewing survivors, and his background as a clinical psychologist, the author argues that interviews with s…
On Testimony, Legacy and the Problem of Helplessness in History
The imagery of Holocaust survivors’ ‘legacies’ and ‘stories’ being passed down ‘from generation to generation’ is ubiquitous. Nonetheless, that rhetoric may mask more than it reveals about the ways survivors actually retell their experiences, about survivors’ motives for doing so, and about the thick interpersonal context in which retelling always goes on. At core, the ‘legacy’ imagery is part of a ‘celebratory discourse’ about survivors that is …
When Is an Interview an Interview? Notes from Listening to Holocaust Survivors
Studies of interviewing suggest that there is a wide gulf between interviewing theory and actual practice. Regarding interviews with Holocaust survivors specifically, there have been no systematic studies of the relationships between theory and practice, nor has there been systematic assessment by other criteria of the increasingly vast archives of survivor interviews. In the absence of such studies, the authors have pursued another approach to t…
Mothers and Others
The Unsaid, the Incommunicable, the Unbearable, and the Irretrievable
Drawing on forty years of interviewing Holocaust survivors—in most cases, multiple interviews with the same survivors over months, years, even decades—this article elucidates the range and complexity of different kinds of silence in survivors’ spoken accounts. Although most often invoked in connection with survivors’ silence, psychic trauma does not play a central role in this analysis. Indeed, discourse about trauma has tended to distract from a…
When Is an Interview an Interview? Notes from Listening to Holocaust Survivors
Studies of interviewing suggest that there is a wide gulf between interviewing theory and actual practice. Regarding interviews with Holocaust survivors specifically, there have been no systematic studies of the relationships between theory and practice, nor has there been systematic assessment by other criteria of the increasingly vast archives of survivor interviews. In the absence of such studies, the authors have pursued another approach to t…
Buried Words
This Forum is a discussion among six contributors deeply familiar with the challenges of analyzing survivor testimony, each with a distinct methodological approach to the topic of sexual violence and the Holocaust. Topics addressed in the discussion include the challenges posed by studying survivor testimonies to learn about sexual violence, the theme of silence and how scholars can mitigate the role they play in reinforcing it, how gender as a c…
Collaborative Interpretation of Survivors’ Accounts
Interpretation of Holocaust survivors’ accounts based on one-time ‘testimonies’, without knowing the multiple versions of a survivor’s account, its permutations in time and interpersonal space, and in the absence of engaging a survivor’s own reflections on those permutations, can lead us seriously astray. Based on his nearly 40 years of interviewing survivors, and his background as a clinical psychologist, the author argues that interviews with s…
Mothers and Others
When Is an Interview an Interview? Notes from Listening to Holocaust Survivors
Studies of interviewing suggest that there is a wide gulf between interviewing theory and actual practice. Regarding interviews with Holocaust survivors specifically, there have been no systematic studies of the relationships between theory and practice, nor has there been systematic assessment by other criteria of the increasingly vast archives of survivor interviews. In the absence of such studies, the authors have pursued another approach to t…
On Testimony, Legacy and the Problem of Helplessness in History
The imagery of Holocaust survivors’ ‘legacies’ and ‘stories’ being passed down ‘from generation to generation’ is ubiquitous. Nonetheless, that rhetoric may mask more than it reveals about the ways survivors actually retell their experiences, about survivors’ motives for doing so, and about the thick interpersonal context in which retelling always goes on. At core, the ‘legacy’ imagery is part of a ‘celebratory discourse’ about survivors that is …
Collaborative Interpretation of Survivors’ Accounts
Interpretation of Holocaust survivors’ accounts based on one-time ‘testimonies’, without knowing the multiple versions of a survivor’s account, its permutations in time and interpersonal space, and in the absence of engaging a survivor’s own reflections on those permutations, can lead us seriously astray. Based on his nearly 40 years of interviewing survivors, and his background as a clinical psychologist, the author argues that interviews with s…
The Unsaid, the Incommunicable, the Unbearable, and the Irretrievable
Drawing on forty years of interviewing Holocaust survivors—in most cases, multiple interviews with the same survivors over months, years, even decades—this article elucidates the range and complexity of different kinds of silence in survivors’ spoken accounts. Although most often invoked in connection with survivors’ silence, psychic trauma does not play a central role in this analysis. Indeed, discourse about trauma has tended to distract from a…
The Humanities of Contingency
Engaging Holocaust survivors primarily as “witnesses” who provide “testimony”—which has long been the prevailing paradigm of practice with sur- vivors—radically oversimplifies both survivors’ lives and their accounts of their lives. Similarly, the conventional “testimony” model limits the extent to which we are likely to become engaged in, and implicated by, survivors’ retelling. I have been making those arguments for over forty years. Here, the …
Buried Words
This Forum is a discussion among six contributors deeply familiar with the challenges of analyzing survivor testimony, each with a distinct methodological approach to the topic of sexual violence and the Holocaust. Topics addressed in the discussion include the challenges posed by studying survivor testimonies to learn about sexual violence, the theme of silence and how scholars can mitigate the role they play in reinforcing it, how gender as a c…
An Interview with Henry ‘Hank’ Greenspan
Kobi Kabalek interviews Henry (Hank) Greenspan about his sustained collaborations with Holocaust survivors, his questioning of conventional concepts in the field such as 'testimony' and 'trauma,' his convictions and strategies as a teacher, and his drive to embody some of what he has learned in playwriting and dramatic performance. Among other provocative assertions, Greenspan suggests that all work in Holocaust Studies is inevitably some version…
Psychology (8 obras) · The Holocaust (7 obras) · Psychoanalysis (6 obras) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Art (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras)