Reviews
With contributions from some of the leading scholars on the subject of Holocaust testimony, Witnessing Unbound is a marvelous collection that takes up the tension between the witness as tale-teller and the witness as truth-teller. Its contributors take up well-known and previously-unexamined texts, documents, and sites in order to better understand the relation between the living and the dead, those who are here and those who are here no longer., Through the testimony of survivors of and witnesses to the atrocities, and the work of those who seek them out, the book unveils new insights at a critical moment in the documentation and commemoration of the Holocaust., In this moving and insightful book, readers are reminded that the Holocaust is a subject which is far from exhausted. To the contrary, combining examinations of little-known topics with reexaminations of familiar ones, Witnessing Unbound enjoins us not only to research and to commemorate but to grapple with the terrible inexplicability that remains after all attempts to speak of the Holocaust., The unique approach of Orthodox Jews to the Holocaust finally finds its rightful place. By opening up new sources and approaches, Witnessing Unbound will reshape the study of Holocaust history, memory, and memorialization.
