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‘Sharing authority’ as ‘learning together’: Henry ‘Hank’ Greenspan in conversation with Malin Thor Tureby
Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Society, Culture and Identity (SKI).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8232-8664
University of Michigan.
2024 (English)In: Oral history, ISSN 0143-0955, Vol. 52, no 1, p. 109-116Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In a wide-ranging conversation, Malin Thor Tureby interviews Henry ‘Hank’ Greenspan aboutseveral of his projects involving ‘sharing authority’, what Greenspan calls ‘collaboration’. Collaboration has taken many forms in his work, most centrally his practice of interviewing the same Holocaust survivors multiple times over months, years, and with some survivors, decades. Unlike conventional testimony, which concerns declaration, that is, ‘this I witnessed’, Greenspan’s approach emphasises exploration, what one survivor called ‘learning together’. Thus, in the context of deepening conversations,survivors reflected on the impact of their wartime experiences throughout the years that followed; theirvarying choices about what to share and not share at different times and circumstances; and theirperceptions of their listeners, and popular ‘Holocaust memory’, in general. Greenspan also discusses a memoir he co-authored with a survivor, and a play, REMNANTS, which is based on his decades of conversations with survivors. He reflects on the process of co-authorship, the role of personal chemistryin interviews, the claims of the verbatim, writing in the service of conversation and the relationshipsbetween artistic and scholarly ways of knowing.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oral History Society , 2024. Vol. 52, no 1, p. 109-116
Keywords [en]
Holocaust survivors, interviewing, sharing authority, collaboration, performance, testimony, learning together
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History Cultural Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-66235OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-66235DiVA, id: diva2:1842957
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Minne och Aktivism: De överlevandes roll i kunskapsproduktionen om Förintelsen
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Swedish Research Council, 2023-05994Available from: 2024-03-06 Created: 2024-03-06 Last updated: 2024-03-11Bibliographically approved

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