Biography and Memory: The Generational Experience of the Shoah Survivors by Kata

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The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Biography and Memory by Katarzyna Maciejczyk, Kaja Kamierska Discusses the return of Jews to their places of birth in Poland. Analysed biographical stories collected from Israeli survivors indicate that such returns may be considered the last chapters of their wartime experiences. Survivors' biographies are examined in the context of both Jewish and Polish memory. This book will be of interest to sociologists, historians, and to general readers. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Biography and Memory discusses the return of Jews to their places of birth in Poland. A biographical urge to come full circle often leads to symbolic journeys to one's roots, but in the case of Shoah survivors, such journeys are unexpected, defying the generational definition of their biography, which mostly draws a demarcation line between wartime trauma and a new post- Holocaust life. Analyzed biographical stories collected from Israeli survivors indicate that such returns may be considered the last chapters of their wartime experiences. Survivors' biographies are examined in the context of both Jewish and Polish memory. This book will be of interest to sociologists, historians, and to general readers. Review The author has faced quite a task: of bringing together and, simultaneously, meeting the requirements of many various perspectives characteristic of sociology, psychology/social psychology, anthropology, narratolog

• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781936235780
• Condition: Fine

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