Holocaust Survivor Testimonies - A digital recording of the October 30, 2001 seminar led by Geoffrey Hartman. See the Writers House calendar entry for more about this event.

Geoffrey Hartman was born in Frankfurt. He was educated at Queens College in New York and at Yale, where he earned a Ph.D. Dr. Hartman is the recipient of numerous awards, and has been active in the creation of Jewish Studies programs in American colleges. His work has been instrumental in opening Judaic studies to a wider audience of scholars and students. Among Hartman's 21 books are three watershed volumes on Holocaust memory: Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective, The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust, and Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory. Professor Hartman also founded the Fortnoff Video Archives of Holocaust Testimonies. Dr. Hartman's current research continues his explorations in this area, looking at the realm of culture in the inter-war period. He is currently the Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Geoffrey Hartman's visit to Penn was jointly sponsored by the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, the Pilot Curriculum roject of the College of Arts & Sciences, the Kelly Writers House, and the Annenberg School for Communication (with special thanks to Barbie Zelizer of the Annenberg faculty), the Penn Humanities Forum, the departments of English and History, and Penn's Jewish Studies Program. The Holocaust Survivor Testimonies seminar was sponsored by The Pilot Curriculum Project of the College of Arts & Sciences, the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, the Annenberg School for Communication, and the Kelly Writers House. Writers House Webcast Archive