From March 1-3, 2019, I had the honor of leading an intensive seminar, together with Dr. Hadas Wiseman, at the Haifa University Holocaust Studies Program, a master’s program headed by the historians Dr. Arieh Kochavi and Dr. Yael Granot-Bein. The seminar was focused on the debate about inter-generational transmission in Holocaust families. To read more about it, please click on… READ MORE>>
Tag | Second Generation
A Report Following My Presentations at an Intensive Seminar On Intergenerational Transmission at Haifa University Holocaust Studies Program
Posted by on March 31, 2019
I Am Starting to Facilitate A New Second Generation Group in Manhattan
Posted by on March 11, 2019
Children of Holocaust Survivors have grown up in families that were different from other families. Our parents were very different from one another, they came from different countries, backgrounds, and families, but they all survived inconceivable catastrophic experiences and shared certain characteristics as a result of such traumatic histories. What our parents experienced before we were born impacted the way… READ MORE>>
Teaching an Intensive Seminar at Haifa University Holocaust Studies Program
Posted by on February 23, 2019
I am honored to have been invited to teach at the Haifa University Holocaust Studies Program in Israel, an interdisciplinary MA program. I am looking forward to spending three intense and fascinating days between March 3-5 with an international group of students and esteemed colleagues who will discuss their empirical findings and their views on the effects of intergenerational transmission… READ MORE>>
Redemption Blues: A Documentary about the Second Generation, this week at Casa Italiana NYU
Posted by on January 28, 2019
The documentary Redemption Rules will be shown on Thursday January 31, 2019 at Casa Italiana at NYU. More information can be found by clicking on the image below: As the description of the documentary states, Redemption Blues is a film about the legacy of the Holocaust, which begins where conventional Shoah narratives leave off and traces a path forward, exploring… READ MORE>>
A Manual for Facilitators of Discussion Groups for Children of Survivors is now available on my website
Posted by on January 20, 2019
A detailed manual based on the ten-session series “Our Parents, Ourselves, Our Changing Lives” that I conducted in Boro Park is now available on my website to anyone who plans to run a similar group. The manual details the content of the session, the learning objectives, and reading material for the group facilitator and for group members, as well as… READ MORE>>
A New Year’s Reminder: Your Parents Would Have Wanted You To Be Happy
Posted by on December 30, 2018
2018 is about to depart, and I want to wish my friends and colleagues a very happy and healthy 2019! A new year is always an occasion to pause and re-evaluate, as well as to orient ourselves towards the things we want to do in the coming years, the traits we want to continue to improve or get better under… READ MORE>>