On Testimony, Legacy and the Problem of Helplessness in History


On Testimony, Legacy and the Problem of Helplessness in History is a scholarly work, published in 2007 in ''Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History''. The main subjects of the publication include gender studies, oral history, psychology, learned helplessness, psychoanalysis, collective memory, aesthetics, wishful thinking, rhetoric, glossary of archaeology, The Holocaust, sociology, and perspective. The article examines ‘legacy’ discourse both from the authors' perspective, as listeners-to-survivors, and from the perspective of survivors themselves.

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