Seeing as Believing: Watching Videotaped Interviews with Holocaust Survivors

Jeffrey Shandler will discuss his recent work, Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors’ Stories and New Media Practices. His work  delves into the possibilities, challenges, and unique findings in USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, which currently holds nearly 54,000 testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses. Dr. Shandler serves as the Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of numerous works, including Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History (2014) and Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America. Event is sponsored by the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the GTU.