An Interview with Henry ‘Hank’ Greenspan

Kobi Kabalek interviews Henry (Hank) Greenspan about his sustained collaborations with Holocaust survivors, his questioning of conventional concepts in the field such as ‘testimony’ and ‘trauma,’ his convictions and strategies as a teacher, and his drive to embody some of what he has learned in playwriting and dramatic performance. Among other provocative assertions, Greenspan suggests that all work in Holocaust Studies is inevitably some version of our own testimony, even though we were not there. That is why scholars must also listen more deeply to each other, interpret collaboratively, and learn together.