ABSTRACT

The Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Descendants of Holocaust Survivors offers a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge studies from a wide range of fields dealing with new research about descendants of Holocaust survivors. Examining the aftermath of the Holocaust on the Second Generation and Third Generation, children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, it is the first volume to bring together research perspectives from history, psychology, sociology, communications, literature, film, theater, art, music, biology, and medicine.

With contributions from international experts, key topics covered include survivor characteristics and experiences; the phenomenological experience of transmitted trauma legacies; the creation of Second Generation groups; the epigenetics of inherited trauma; the development of Second Generation writing; representation of Holocaust survivors in film; music and the transmission of memory; art, music, and the Holocaust; ancestral trauma and its effect on the ageing process of subsequent generations; 2G and 3G health issues and outcomes. Divided into two sections, the first deals with the humanities: history and testimony, literature, film and theater, art, and music. The second section, focusing on the social sciences and health-related sciences, contains chapters dealing with studies in the fields of psychology, sociology, anthropology, communication, gerontology, nursing, and medicine.

This insightful handbook is a contemporary anthology for advanced students and scholars in the humanities, along with those in behavioral, social, and health-related sciences concerned with research about second- and third-generation Holocaust survivors.

part I|103 pages

Humanities

chapter 1|13 pages

Creating Second Generation Groups in the USA and Israel

A Four-decade Perspective

chapter 2|7 pages

The Metamorphosis of Second Generation Writing

Just When I Thought I Was Out – A Case Study

chapter 4|12 pages

Past Life

A Cantata for Holocaust Voices Past and Present

chapter 5|11 pages

Time Stands Still

Acting Out the Trauma in Second Generation Israeli Documentaries

chapter 7|15 pages

Arbeit Macht Frei

Reality and Meaning in Second Generation Israeli Artists' Artworks

chapter 8|9 pages

The Role of Music in Shaping Holocaust Memory

An Intergenerational Process of Preservation and Transmission

chapter 9|11 pages

Holocaust Remembrance

Music as a Therapeutic Tool That Mediates Between Holocaust Survivors and Their Offspring

part II|111 pages

The Social Sciences and Health-related Sciences

chapter 10|16 pages

Effects of the Holocaust on the Second Generation

A Preliminary Analysis of an Ongoing Survey

chapter 13|14 pages

Ethnographic Accounts of Israeli Holocaust Descendant Resilient-Vulnerability

Moral-Political Worldviews and the Emergence of Empowering Distress

chapter 14|13 pages

A Digital Safe Haven

Six Functions of Social Media for Second Generation Holocaust Survivors

chapter 15|10 pages

Late-Life Manifestations of Ancestral Trauma

The Case of Older Adult Offspring of Holocaust Survivors