Equally amazing as the presposterous prima facie degenerate lies of Venezia and Gabbai is the Shoah web site article on them, written by Dawn Skorczewski, Director of University Writing and Professor of English at Brandeis University. After recounting some of the most idiotic parts of our heros' testimony, she concludes ...
https://sfi.usc.edu/news/2015/10/10140-what-story-two-sonderkommando-interviews-usc-shoah-foundation-archive
"It might be tempting at this point to privilege one of these interviews over the other,
or to say that one survivor is more accurate or his story more true. But the value of the thousands of testimonies in the USCSF collection lies in the simple reality of its numbers and the availability of access. To achieve an understanding of the gas chambers at Auschwitz, I urge my students to begin by watching several survivors speaking about the Sonderkommando detail, and to carefully track their viewing experiences. What facts do they learn from each? What else do they glean from the experience? In writing about these two –the “what” of the facts and the “how” of how these facts are conveyed—students learn to recognize the many ways in which knowledge about the Holocaust is conveyed.
What is “true” becomes less important than what they can learn about how the many and sometimes competing versions of the truths are told."
So, you'd expect Dawn to be some Lipstadt type hag, lurking the halls of Brandeis, but noooo ....
Let's have a look at her ........ vita :< ...
Awards and Honors
CLUE+ Research Fellowship, VU Amsterdam (2016 - 2018)
Into the Archives: Searching for the Jewish Council of Amsterdam (2016 - 2017)
Norman Foundation Grant (2015)
Ticho Foundation Educational Grant (2015)
Fulbright Scholar: Professor of American Culture (2013 - 2014)
Whiting Foundation Grant (2012)
Newman Fund Grant: the Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton (2011)
CORST ESSAY PRIZE for INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK IN PSYCHOANALYSIS (2010)
Gondor Award for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Education (2007)
Newman Fund Grant: Psychoanalysis and Teaching (2006)
Scholarship
Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "Anne Sexton's Unlikely Muse." The Muse: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Creative Inspiration. 1st ed. Ed. Adele Tutter. London and NY: Routledge, 2017. 262.
Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories by Donald Antrim.." Rev. of The Emerald Light in the Air, by Donald Antrim. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association vol. 64 June 2016: 656-659.
Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "A Holocaust Heroine Grows Up." Brandeis Magazine Summer 2015: online.
Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "Talking Around the Holocaust: the Interviewer's Role in the USC Holocaust Testimonies.." Autobiografia. Literatura. Kultura. Media 1. 1 (2016): 33-50.
Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "What is the Story? Two Sonderkommando Interviews in the USC Shoah Foundation Archive."
https://sfi.usc.edu/news/2015/10/10...mando-interviews-usc-shoah-foundation-archive this is an internet article. above (2016): <https://sfi.usc.edu/news/2015/10/10140-what-story-two-sonderkommando-interviews-usc-shoah-foundation-archive>.
Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "“Anne Sexton’s Unlikely Muse,”." The Muse: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Creative Inspiration". Ed. Adele Tutter. NY: Routledge, 2016. TBA.
Skorczewski, Dawn M., Edited w Matthew Parfitt. The Happiness Reader. 1 ed. NY: Macmillan, 2015.
Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "Book Review: Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma: Intergenerational Transmission, Psychoanalytic Treatment, and the Dynamics of Forgiveness; Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony." by Dawn Skorczewski. J Am Psychoanal Assoc October 2014 of 62 October 2014: 931-936.
Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "Writing the Holocaust." Rev. of several titles/review article, American Journal of Psychoanalysis 2013
Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "A Double Image?: The Voices of Linda Gray Sexton." Rev. of Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide, by Linda Gray Sexton. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 2012
Skorczewski, Dawn M.. An Accident of Hope: the Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton. NY and London: Routledge, 2012.
Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "From Confession to Testimony: Refiguring Trauma in the Classroom." Compelling Confessions. Ed. Suzanne Diamond. Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2011
Dawn Skorczewski. "Review, The Very Thought of Education (by Deborah Britzman)." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 2010: 7.
Skorczewski, Dawn M.. ""You, I we created the poet": Anne Sexton's Therapy Tapes, November 1963." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2010).
Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "Analyst as Teacher/Teacher as Analyst: A Confusion of Tongues?." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2008): 30.
Skorczewski, Dawn. Teaching one moment at a time : disruption and repair in the classroom. University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.