At last, Ruth Sidranksy s groundbreaking book "In Silence: Growing Up Hearing in a Deaf World" is back in print. Her account of growing up as the hearing daughter of deaf Jewish parents in the Bronx and Brooklyn during the 1930s and1940s reveals the challenges deaf people faced during the Depression and afterward.
Inside her family s apartment, Sidransky knew a warm, secure place. She recalls her earliest memories of seeing words fall from her parents hands. She remembers her father entertaining the family endlessly with his stories, and her mother s story of tying a red ribbon to herself...