Biography,Trauma, the Holocaust and the Sociological Eye |
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Authors: | Peter J. Stein |
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Affiliation: | Department of Sociology, William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey, 07470 |
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Abstract: | My book, A Boy’s Journey: From Nazi-Occupied Prague to Freedom in America (2019) chronicles the first 15 years of my life in the context of the Holocaust, a war and an occupation, relatives disappearing, father returning from a concentration camp, and meeting Jewish relatives who resisted and survived. It is also a story of immigration and assimilation, learning a new language and a new culture in America, of forgetting the old and developing a new identity. |
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Keywords: | holocaust denial immigration social functions of ignorance sociological eye sociological imagination trauma |
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