The taste of trauma: reflections of ageing Shoah survivors on food and how they (re)inscribe it with meaning

Drawing on ethnographic research in the UK’s only support facility for ageing Jewish Shoah survivors, this paper charts the ‘foodways’ in a Centre where satiety is experienced as an emotional as well as a physical need. How the experience of genocidal violence and displacement give rise to particula...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ben Kasstan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Donner Institute 2015-04-01
Series:Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
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Online Access:https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67461