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BL
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962507
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b716877
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| Main Entry
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Sidransky, Ruth.
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| Title & Author
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In silence : : growing up hearing in a deaf world /\ Ruth Sidransky.
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| Publication Statement
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Washington, D.C. :: Gallaudet University Press,, 2006.
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xi, 343 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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1563682877
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: 9781563682872
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| Contents
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1: My beginnings -- Hands -- School days -- 2: The world of my parents -- School for Benny and Mary -- A deaf world -- Mary -- Mary and Benny, a love story -- Benny -- Benny and Ruthie -- 3: Growing up hearing -- Childhood lost -- When other children die -- Prayer -- The West Bronx -- Benny, my touchstone -- High school -- Fantasies -- College -- 4: Voices -- My deaf family -- Benny dies -- Mary.
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| Abstract
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A classic account of growing up as the hearing daughter of deaf Jewish parents in the Bronx and Brooklyn in pre- and post-World War II America.
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Sidransky, Ruth.
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Sidransky, Ruth.
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Children of parents with disabilities-- New York (State)-- New York, Biography.
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Deaf-- New York (State)-- New York, Biography.
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Parents with disabilities-- New York (State)-- New York, Biography.
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Children of parents with disabilities.
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Deaf.
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Parents with disabilities.
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New York (N.Y.), Biography.
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New York (State), New York.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.8740872097472
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| LC Classification
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HQ759.912.S53 2006
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