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1 online resource |
| Summary |
"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 - it 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. An engaging, grounded study of the biographical method in sociology and the role played by silence, this book will appeal to readers with an interest in the Holocaust and WWII, as well as in social scientific research methods. It will be of use to both undergraduate and postgraduate scholars in the fields of history, social science, psychology, philosophy, and the history of ideas"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Irene Levin is Professor Emerita in social work at Oslo Metropolitan University. She has been co-editor of The Holocaust as Active Memory, Social Work and Sociology, and Families and Memories. She has also written Norwegian Jewish Women: Wartime Agency - Post-War Silence in Women and War, The Escape from Norway in Civil Society and the Holocaust,and Silence, Memory and Migration in Families and Migration |
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Raskow, Fanny, 1912-2013.
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Rasco family.
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Raskow, Fanny, 1912-2013 -- Family
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Norway -- Psychological aspects
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Jews -- Norway -- Oslo -- Biography
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Holocaust survivors -- Norway -- Oslo -- Biography
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology
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HISTORY / Holocaust
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Norway -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.
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Oslo (Norway) -- Ethnic relations
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Oslo (Norway) -- Biography
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Oatley, Diane, translator.
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| LC no. |
2024018240 |
| ISBN |
9781003462699 |
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1003462693 |
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9781040112793 |
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104011279X |
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9781040112779 |
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1040112773 |
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