David Boder
David P. Boder (born November 9, 1886 in Liepāja , Russian Empire ; died December 18, 1961 in Los Angeles ) was a Latvian-American psychologist.
Life
Boder studied between 1905 and 1906 at the University of Leipzig with Wilhelm Wundt and later with Wladimir Bechterew in Saint Petersburg . From 1921 to 1925 he taught as a professor of German literature and as a psychologist at the National University of Mexico . In 1927 he received a "Master of Arts" degree in psychology in Chicago .
From 1927 to 1952 he was Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology and Philosophy at the Illinois Institute of Technology . From 1952 until his death, he was a Research Associate in Psychology at the University of California .
Boder was married twice and had one child.
The Boder interviews
In 1946 Broder went to Europe to make interviews with survivors of the concentration camps using the then new technology of tape recordings . The contemporary witnesses described their experiences as survivors of the Shoah . They were free to choose which language to use. For the most part, the magnetic tape recordings of the 120 transcribed interviews (200 hours of audio recording) are available at the IIT. These 1946 interviews are considered an important source of information about the crimes in the concentration camps.
Works
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I Did Not Interview the Dead, Urbana 1949; French version: ders., Je n'ai pas interrogé les morts, ed. v. Rosen, Alan; Brayard, Florent, Paris 2006
- German: Julia Faisst, Alan Rosen and Werner Sollors (eds.): I did not question the dead . Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5920-1 .
- Topical Autobiographies of Displaced People Recorded Verbatim in the Displaced Persons Camps, with a Psychological and Anthropological Analysis. (16 volumes), Chicago 1950–1957.
literature
- David Pablo Boder Papers, 1938–1957 University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
- Fiction
- Elliot Perlman : Soundtracks: Novel . From the English by Grete Osterwald. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-421-04373-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about David Boder in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- About Boder and interviews (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boder, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boder, David Pablo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Latvian-American psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Libau , Latvia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1961 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |