They Left It All Behind: Trau­ma, Loss, and Mem­o­ry Among East­ern Euro­pean Jew­ish Immi­grants and Their Children by Han­nah Hahn

Trauma was a potent influence in the lives of pre-1924 Eastern European Jewish immigrants. They uprooted themselves because of grinding poverty, anti-Semitic discrimination, pogroms, and the violence of World War I. This book’s psychoanalytically-informed...