They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss, and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and their Children

This book explores the influence of historical events and intergenerational transmission of trauma on the psychological lives of pre-1924 Eastern European Jewish immigrants and their children. It explores disavowal of loss, homesickness, and anti-Semitic violence, as well as parents' sacrifices and their children's success.

Author: Hannah Hahn
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 10/31/2019
Pages: 302
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d
ISBN13: 9781538125199
ISBN10: 1538125196
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Grief & Loss
- History | Jewish | General
- History | United States | General

About the Author
Hannah Hahn maintains a full-time private practice as a psychologist and psychoanalyst in New York City. After graduate-level work in English literature, she obtained a master's degree in psychology from Harvard University, a PhD in clinical psychology from Columbia University, and psychoanalytic certification from the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, where she currently supervises candidates. She taught attachment at the New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Training in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence. Her publications and presentations include "They Left it All Behind," in M. O'Loughlin's The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting (2015) and "A Safe Place to Stand: The Holding Environment with Child Patients and Their Parents" (2005).