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4:11 Friday, December 20, 2002
Study the Holocaust Through Deaf Eyes
Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
Deaf People in
Hitler’s
Europe, edited by Donna F. Ryan and John S. Schuchman, is a collection of
essays that were inspired by the Deaf People in Hitler’s
Europe, 1933-1945, conference staged at Gallaudet University in 1998. “The
conference included formal academic presentations as well as witness panels, a
screening of the 1932 film Verkannte Menschen (Misjudged People), an
opportunity for deaf Europeans to formally join the Survivors’ Registry at the
museum, and a moving ecumenical memorial service for deaf Holocaust victims
conducted by Fred Friedman, a deaf rabbi, in the [museum’s] Hall of Witness. After the
conference, it seemed appropriate to publish some of the presentations,”
writes co-author Donna F. Ryan in her preface.
Divided into three parts, Racial Hygiene, The German Experience, and The Jewish
Deaf Experience, this volume presents papers on such topics as
the role of medical professionals in deciding who
should be sterilized, forbidden to marry, or murdered; the expense of educating
deaf students when they could not be soldiers or bear
“healthy”
children; and the plight of deaf Jews in Hungary. You can read
more about this important facet of the Holocaust in
an excerpt from Part III: The Jewish Deaf Experience, and
order this
vital study at 20% off the regular price.
Deaf People in Hitler’s Europe is the third publication
on the topic of the Holocaust and deaf experiences. Other titles include
Surviving in
Silence:
A Deaf Boy in
the Holocaust, The Harry I. Dunai Story by Eleanor C. Dunai and Horst
Biesold’s Crying Hands: Eugenics
and Deaf People in Nazi Germany.
 Jan
Branson and and Don Miller’s
Damned for Their
Difference:
The Cultural
Construction of Deaf People as Disabled
earned the endorsement of The Midwest Book Review in its November 2002
issue of the Wisconsin Bookwatch newsletter: “Damned
For Their Difference is a very strongly recommended, inherently fascinating
and arguably persuasively written account of an endemic social issue with
respect to the hearing impaired.” Their
wide-ranging study offers a well-founded explanation of how the discrimination
against deaf people came to be through a discursive exploration of the cultural,
social, and historical contexts of these attitudes and behavior toward deaf
people, especially in Great Britain. Read the
complete review
and Chapter Two
and order Damned
for Their Difference.
 In
its November 2002 issue,
CHOICE magazine highlights
Ethics in Mental Health and Deafness edited by Virginia
Gutman.
“Gutman’s unique volume
explores ethical issues in mental health as they apply to mental health
practitioners and patients within the Deaf community,”
writes D. J. Winchester of Yeshiva University. He concludes with,
“This collection should be required reading not only for mental
health practitioners but also for undergraduate and graduate students and
researchers interested in Deaf culture.” Click
here to read the review
in its entirety. To find out more about this title,
which covers a range of issues from matters of confidentiality to genetic
counseling and testing for deafness, read Chapter
Three,
“Law
and Ethics in Mental Health and Deafness,”
and order
Ethics in Mental Health and Deafness.
 February
1, 2003 is the
early-bird
registration date for Gallaudet University Press Institute’s
second international conference “Genetics,
Disability, and Deafness.” Register now and save 10% off the regular
registration fee.
For more information
about the conference and to register online, go to
http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/gupiconference/index.html.
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