Severed Voices: Radio and the Mediation of Trauma in the Eichmann Trial

This essay considers the role of the radio in the mediation of trauma during the 1961 Eichmann trial. It is argued that radio broadcasts from the courtroom occasioned a transformation in the status of Holocaust survivors in Israel, who had been previously seen as deeply traumatized, unable or unwill...

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Published in:Public culture 2010-07, Vol.22 (2), p.265-291
Main Authors: Pinchevski, Amit, Liebes, Tamar
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Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Studies
Eichmann, Adolf
Holocaust
Interviews
Israel
Litigation
Mass Media Effects
Media
Public sphere
Radio
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Social Theory
Sociology
Trauma
Trials
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Interviews
Israel
Litigation
Mass Media Effects
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Public sphere
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Social Theory
Sociology
Trauma
Trials
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