Domestic Listening Across Generations: Irene Oore’s <i>The Listener: In the Shadow of the Holocaust</i>

In the last decade, critical interest in effects of institutional and technical protocols on recorded Holocaust testimony has grown. The role professional or volunteer adult interviewers been re-examined, particularly relation to taped, archival testimony, studies demonstrate that survivor is shaped by interview situation listening practices. However, child listener a domestic setting postmemory autobiography memoir received less attention. analysis follows, I focus Irene Oore’s 2019 memoir, Listener: Shadow Holocaust, because, as title suggests, Oore thematizes question listening, asking what it means listen parent. My considers well emotion work. text posits life writing most desirable outcome for can be an act care which elicits retelling witness accounts. publishing her mother’s stories, own experiences them, Oore's functions deferred mediated mother never publicly gave.