The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Its Outtakes

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Inventing According to the Truth: The Long Arc of Lanzmann’s Shoah
1. Inside the Outtakes: A History of the Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
2. Shoah and the Archive
3. Composing with Incompossibles: The Jewish Council, the “Kasztner Train,” and the Making of Shoah
4. “The dead are not around”: Raul Hilberg as Historical Revenant in Shoah
5. “Traduttore traditore”: Claude Lanzmann’s Polish Translations
6. Yehuda Lerner’s Living Words: Translation and Transcription in Sobibór, October 14, 1943,  4 p.m.
7. Double Occupancy and Delay: The Last of the Unjust and the Archive
8. In Search of Suchomel in Shoah: Examining Claude Lanzmann’s Postproduction Editing Practice
9. The Real Abraham Bomba: Through Claude Lanzmann’s Looking Glass
10. The Gender of Testimony: Ruth Elias and the Challenge to Lanzmann’s Paradigm of Witnessing
11. Challenging Shoah’s Paradigms of Witnessing and Survival: From Filip Müller to Ruth Elias
12. “They were killing us and we were singing”: The Role of Song in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah Outtakes
Coda. Ownership, Authorship, and Access: The Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection
Appendix 1. The Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection: A Guide to the Outtakes
Appendix 2. Works by and about Claude Lanzmann
Contributors
Index