
They Left It All Behind
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Many of the children believed their parents had left their lives in Eastern Europe behind them. This disavowal-aided by the immigrants' silence and denial-allowed their children to minimize the trauma and loss their parents suffered both before and after immigrating. I analyze the impact of parental trauma and loss on the second generation.
Trauma and loss affected the transmission of memory, and, consequently, often immigrants' recollections were not passed on to future generations. The topics of trauma and loss in the lives of Eastern European immigrants are relevant in understanding current immigrants to America.
Often immigrants' children tried to repay the debt that they felt was incurred by their parents' sacrifices. Resilience, accomplishment, and their transition from their immigrant parents' world to their own full participation in the American milieu characterized the adult lives of the immigrants' children.
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Preface: They Left It All Behind
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Dramatic 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: Growing Up in America
5 The First Generation: Adulthood
Conclusions: From Silence to Connection: Memory, History, Trauma, and Loss
Appendix A: Questionnaire: Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and Their Children in America
Appendix B: Research Approach
Glossary: Yiddish Words and Other Terms
References
About the Author
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