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The Holocaust Across Generations. Trauma and its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors.
Janet Jacobs
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JM; HBTZ1; JMC; MMJ; MMKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 417.
Winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award for the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section presented by the American Sociological Association
Brings together the study of post-Holocaust family culture with the study of collective memory
Over the last two decades, the cross-generational transmission of trauma has become an important area of research within both Holocaust studies and the more broad study of genocide. The overall findings of the research suggest that the Holocaust informs both the psychological and social development of the children of survivors who, like their parents, suffer from nightmares, guilt, fear, and sadness. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479833566
SKU
V9781479833566
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About Janet Jacobs
Janet Jacobs is Professor of Sociology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado. She is the author of numerous books and journal articles, including Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews and Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory.
Reviews for The Holocaust Across Generations. Trauma and its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors.
"The book is a very fine piece of scholarship."
American Journal of Sociology
"Janet Jacobs has provided us with a thoroughly sociological understanding of the social transmission of collective trauma across generations. It is integrative theoretically and empirically, focusing on the social structures and social relations of transmission, including family processes, rituals and narratives of identity construction, public ... Read more
American Journal of Sociology
"Janet Jacobs has provided us with a thoroughly sociological understanding of the social transmission of collective trauma across generations. It is integrative theoretically and empirically, focusing on the social structures and social relations of transmission, including family processes, rituals and narratives of identity construction, public ... Read more