They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss, and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and their Children 2019949310

Trauma was a potent influence in the lives of pre-1924 Eastern European Jewish immigrants. They uprooted themselves beca

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Table of contents :
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Dramatis Personae
1 They Left It All Behind and the Disavowal of Loss
2 Communicating about the Past and Trauma
3 Missing the Old Country and Life in America
4 Childhood
5 The First Generation
Conclusions
Appendix A
Appendix B
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author

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