{"product_id":"max-hirshfeld-sweet-noise","title":"Max Hirshfeld: Sweet Noise","description":"\u003ci\u003eSweet Noise. Love in Wartime\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of photographs and words about the Holocaust, a subject difficult to grasp and almost impossible to document. It is also a story of love in a time of war, told in a clear voice using compelling black-and-white photographs and simple, evocative language to build a framework around this pivotal moment in history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHirshfeld's parents, Polish Jews who survived Auschwitz, raised him in a small city in Alabama, where life in the South of the 1950s and 1960s was quiet and, on the surface, mostly idyllic. But lurking under the surface was a remarkable yet tension-filled history that fully revealed itself only after he matured and had a family of his own. He knew the outer perimeters of his parent's story: the challenges of being Jewish in a place that increasingly alienated them, their individual trajectories as they moved through adulthood and their chance meeting in a Nazi-created ghetto where they fell in love. But it took a trip to Poland with his mother in 1993 (and the discovery in 2005 of hundreds of post-war letters between his parents) to more fully acquaint me with the depths of their tragedies and the exceptional love story that began in 1943, sustaining them through the war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThough Sweet Noise\u003c\/i\u003e features events that began seventy-five years ago, the material is eerily timely. As Eastern Europe grapples with this horrific legacy, and many countries are reassessing their responses to mass immigration, those in a position to bear witness need a supportive environment wherein art and language serve to remind the world what can occur when hatred and the concept of ethnic cleansing are given free rein.","brand":"Damiani Editore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42664641003556,"sku":"9788862086608","price":90.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9788862086608.jpg?v=1777359044","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/max-hirshfeld-sweet-noise","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}