The Silence: How Tragedy Shapes Talk

by Ruth Wajnryb

Silence is often the most powerful form of communication and it is silence that still dominates the homes of Holocaust survivors and their families, even after half a century. Through interviews with children of survivors, this book explores communication in survivor families from the perspective of the postwar generation. Explaining the effects of trauma on communication, this book offers an understanding of the language of silence that often becomes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 186508512X
• ISBN13: 9781865085128
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"