Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age

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"Jeffrey Shandler once again brings his erudite, incisive mind to address the intersections of media, memory, and recent Jewish history and its memorialization. Diving deep into the Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive, Shandler explores the project's mission to provide an invaluable record of those who witnessed the unspeakable, while deploying digital technologies as a bulwark against racism and hate."-Faye Ginsburg, New York University "In his probing and clear-eyed inquiry into how and what we learn from Holocaust video testimonies, Jeffrey Shandler gives visual history archives of the Holocaust new life in our 'digital age.' A must-read for anyone viewing, teaching, or writing about Holocaust video testimony."-James E. Young, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "This original and thought-provoking work demonstrates the value of situating the study of the Holocaust within the context of the digital humanities, of expanding the scope of this type of research to include other genocides and oral history collections, and of fostering an ongoing discussion about how, why, and in what forms life stories will be documented for generations that are to come."-Sarah Jefferies, Biography "Basing his book on extensive study and unfettered analysis of the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive, Shandler studies memory and remembrance through the application and exploitation of digital formats and technologies. This volume belongs in libraries supporting oral historians, practitioners of digital humanities, and Holocaust and genocide studies...Recommended"-B. M. Banta, Choice "[A] welcome contribution to scholarship on the mediations of Holocaust memory....Shandler's book represents a timely and insightful contribution to a vibrant area of scholarship engaged in pressing questions."-Noah Shenker, American Historical Review