The Listener: In the Shadow of the Holocaust - Hardcover
by Irene Oore
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Irene OoreSeries:Regina CollectionPublish date:2019-09-14Pages:160
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Regina PressISBN-13:9780889776531ISBN-10:889776539UPC:9780889776531Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Jewish, WomenSize:6.40 x 6.80 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCKDK54XVD
A reflection on how trauma is passed from generation to generation
In The Listener, a daughter receives a troubling gift: her mother's stories of surviving World War II in Poland. During the Holocaust, Irene Oore's mother escaped the death camps by concealing her Jewish identity. Those years found her constantly on the run and on the verge of starvation, living a harrowing and peripatetic existence as she struggled to keep herself and her family alive. Throughout the memoir, Oore reveals a certain ambivalence towards the gift bestowed upon her. The stories of fear, love, and constant hunger traumatised her as a child. Now, she shares these same stories with her own children, to keep the history alive.Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Regina PressISBN-13:9780889776531ISBN-10:889776539UPC:9780889776531Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Jewish, WomenSize:6.40 x 6.80 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCKDK54XVD
Irene Oore is the co-author of Marie-Claire Blais: An Annotated Bibliography. Born in Lódz, Poland, she immigrated to Israel as a child and is now a professor of French at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
Publisher: University of Regina Press
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