Seminar: Jerusalem Oral Memory and Documentation Method
A seminar on the ethics of collecting oral accounts: permission, context, and limits of generalization.
The seminar discusses the difference between personal account and methodical documentation. Testimony is a precious source if its narrator and time are known, and weak if turned into a judgment on «the whole city».
Questions for discussion
- When do we publish the account? When do we settle for preserving it?
- How do we handle contradiction between two testimonies?
- What is the relation of written memoirs to oral account?