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Everyday Silence and the Holocaust

Everyday Silence and the Holocaust

Levin, Irene

Hardcover

General SociologyHolocaust

ISBN10: 1032612436
ISBN13: 9781032612430
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 31 2024
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Everyday Silence and the Holocaust examines Irene Levin's experiences of her family's unspoken history of the Holocaust and the silence that surrounded their war experiences as non-topics.

A central example of what C. Wright Mills considered the core of sociology - the intersection of biography and history - the book covers the process by which the author came to understand that notes found in her mother's apartment following her death were not unimportant scribbles, but in fact contained elements of her mother's biographical narrative, recording her parents' escape from occupied Norway to unoccupied Sweden in late 1942. From the mid-1990s, when society began to open up about the atrocities committed against the Jews, so too did the author find that her mother and the wider Jewish population ceased to be silent about their war experiences and began to talk. Charting the process by which the author traced the family's broader history, this book explores the use of silence, whether in the family or in society more widely, as a powerful analytic tool and examines how these silences can intertwine. This book provides insight into social processes often viewed through a macro-historical lens by way of analysis of the life of an ordinary Jewish woman as a survivor.

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