Dear Friends, I want to thank the many of you who have generously given your time and completed the online questionnaire that I will be using in a study of the responses of 2G’s and American Jewish comparison peers to the Hamas attack on October 7 and the events that have followed it. (The study was announced in my previous… READ MORE>>
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Reminder: Your Help Requested for Our Research Study About the Responses of 2G’s and Non-Holocaust to Recent Events
Posted by on April 21, 2024
Videorecording of Program “Women in Art: Polish Jewish Women Who Fought the Nazis” is Now Available Online
Posted by on April 14, 2024
On Monday March 18, I had the honor of leading a conversation over Zoom with the artist Paula Blumenfeld about her incredible series of paintings of women who were part of the resistance in the Ghettos (the link to my original blog post announcing the event is available here). Paula is a daughter of a survivor father. She shared some… READ MORE>>
Your help requested in a new study about the reactions of 2G and Non-Holocaust related peers to recent events
Posted by on March 24, 2024
Dear Friends, I am including below a link to an online questionnaire devised by myself and my colleague Prof. Shrira from Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and am asking for your help in providing your responses. As you know, we are going through very difficult times. The atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7, the hostages who are still in captivity,… READ MORE>>
My Contribution About Vibrant Older Adults in the COVID19 Pandemic Published as Chapter in New Book
Posted by on July 2, 2023
I am very honored to announce the publication of the book “Pandemic Providers”. This work resulted from the collaboration I was part of during 2020-2021 among a large group of international psychologists, researchers, and mental health advocates. It has been an honor and privilege to be part of the Interdivisional APA COVID-19 Task Force and I am grateful to my… READ MORE>>
Links to Recordings of the Three-Part Series “The Voices of Descendants of Holocaust Survivors in Writing”
Posted by on May 8, 2023
Over the past few months, I had the honor of presenting a program hosted by the Museum of Jewish Heritage which focused on published authored who are descendants of Holocaust survivors. The unique focus of these meetings was on works that, while exploring the history of the generation that survived the Holocaust and WWII, the writers of the so-called ‘second’… READ MORE>>
Thoughts on “Voices of the Descendants”
Posted by on May 3, 2023
The third and final segment of our three-part program, “The Voices of Descendants of Holocaust Survivors in Writing” took place yesterday. I had the pleasure of conducting a conversation with Emanuel Rosen, the grandson of Dr. Hugo Mendel and his wife Lucie, and Noah Lederman, the grandson of Hadasa and Leon Lederman. Each man went on a long and arduous… READ MORE>>