Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Descendants of Holocaust Survivors

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is Director of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, Abraham and Edita Spiegel Family Professor in Holocaust Research, Rabbi Pynchas Brener Professor in Research on the Holocaust of European Jewry, and Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. Amit Shrira is the chair of the Department of Social & Health Sciences at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He supervises the social sciences track at the interdisciplinary graduate program in gerontology at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His research program focuses on late-life effects of massive trauma and its intergenerational transmission.

Introduction – Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Amit Shrira

Part I - Humanities








Creating Second Generation Groups in the USA and Israel: A Four-decade Perspective – Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz



The Metamorphosis of Second-Generation Writing: Just When I Thought I Was Out - A Case Study – Melvin Jules Bukiet



Literary Works on the Second and Third Generation of Holocaust Survivors in Hungary – Presence or Absence? – Katalin Pécsi-Pollner



Past Life: A Cantata for Holocaust Voices Past and Present – Phyllis Lassner



Time Stands Still: Acting Out the Trauma in Second Generation Israeli Documentaries – Liat Steir Livny



The Representation of Second Generation Holocaust Survivors in Certificate of Life - On and Off the Stage – Roy Horovitz



Arbeit Macht Frei: Reality and Meaning in Second Generation Israeli Artists' Artworks – Batya Brutin



The Role of Music in Shaping Holocaust Memory: An Intergenerational Process of Preservation and Transmission – Rachel Kollender



Holocaust Remembrance: Music as a Therapeutic Tool That Mediates Between Holocaust Survivors and Their Offspring – Atarah Fisher



Part II - The Social Sciences and Health-Related Sciences








Effects of the Holocaust on the Second Generation: A Preliminary Analysis of an Ongoing Survey –Samuel Juni



Intergenerational Transmission in the Experiences of Aging Children of Holocaust Survivors During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the USA - Irit Felsen



Past, Present, and Future Perspectives of Holocaust Trauma Transmission – Natan P.F. Kellermann



Ethnographic Accounts of Israeli Holocaust Descendant Resilient-Vulnerability: Moral-Political Worldviews and the Emergence of Empowering Distress – Carol A. Kidron, Dan Kotliar, and Laurence J. Kirmayer



A Digital Safe Haven: Six Functions of Social Media for Second Generation Holocaust Survivors – Motti Neiger and Miriam Neiger-Fleischmann



Late Life Manifestations of Ancestral Trauma: The Case of Older Adult Offspring of Holocaust Survivors – Amit Shrira



Specific Aspects in the Life and Care of the Offspring of Shoah Survivors in Germany - Andrea Zielke-Nadkarni



Long-term Physical Health Outcomes in Child Holocaust Survivors and in Offspring of Holocaust Survivors – Lital Keinan Boker