Abstract
The narrative turn has several applications in therapy, education, medicine, and gerontology. Oral history, as the collection of individual life stories for the purpose of preserving and promoting the collective memory of communities, is another such application. This article describes the resurgence of oral history and its various genres. In this context, four international oral history projects are described: in India for the Tibetan exiles, in Japan for the tsunami victims, in South Korea for North Korean refugees, and in Israel for a binational Jewish-Palestinian village. The article discusses the changes that occur in the lives of interviewees and interviewers and highlights the role and the challenges of qualitative inquiry as a humanitarian endeavor.1
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