Geoffrey Hartman
Geoffrey Hartman · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Yale literary theorist; co-founded the first Holocaust video-testimony archive
1929, Frankfurt, Germany — 2016, Hamden, Connecticut, United States
Germany · United Kingdom · United States
Geoffrey Hartman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Yale literary theorist; co-founded the first Holocaust video-testimony archive
Hartman was a Yale literary theorist central to deconstruction and Romantic studies, and he co-founded the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, the first large-scale project to record survivor testimony on video. A German Jew, he escaped Nazi Germany as a child on the Kindertransport. He taught at Yale for decades and shaped the study of memory and testimony.
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Yale literary theorist; co-founded the first Holocaust video-testimony archive
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
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