Biography, Trauma, the Holocaust and the Sociological Eye

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 surviv...

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Published in:Sociological forum (Randolph, N.J.) N.J.), 2020-12, Vol.35 (4), p.1337-1345
Main Author: Stein, Peter J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Assimilation
Concentration camps
Holocaust
holocaust denial
Immigration
Language acquisition
Relatives
social functions of ignorance
sociological eye
Sociological imagination
Trauma
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0884-8971
1573-7861
DOI:10.1111/socf.12650