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

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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