Holocaust Remembrance Day Siren [runtime: 3:55]
Yaron Jean (PhD.) teaches modern history at the Sapir College, Negev. He is the author of Noises of Modernity: Hearing Experiences in Germany 1914-1945 (Heb.), (Tel Aviv, 2011) and Portable Identities: Travel Documents and the Question of Stateless Refugees in Europe between the Two World Wars, (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, forthcoming 2019) [Eng.] His publications on the history of sound further include “The Soundmindedness of the Great War: Viewing History through Auditory Lenses,” in: Feiereisen Florence and Hill M. Alexandra (ed.) Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century. An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2012); “Silenced Power: Warfare Technology and the Changing Role of Sounds in Twentieth-Century Europe,” in: Studies in Contemporary History, 8, 2011; “Droning Airplanes and Reversed Memories: The Historiosonic Vocabulary of the Air War Over Europe in the Second World War,” in: Meier R. (ed.) Acoustic Memory and the Second World War, (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , 2010); and “Destruction out of Silence: Non-Diegetic Sounds, Drones and the Natural History of Aerial Warfare,” in: Bründel Stephen and Frank Estelmann (ed.) Disasters of Violence, War and Extermisim 1813-2015, (Transcript Verlag, 2018).
