Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Descendants of Holocaust Survivors

<p>The<em> Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Descendants of Holocaust Survivors</em> offers a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge studies from a wide range of fields dealing with new research about descendants of Holocaust survivors. Examining the aftermath of the Holocaust on the Second Generation and Third Generation children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors it is the first volume to bring together research perspectives from history psychology sociology communications literature film theater art music biology and medicine. </p><p>With contributions from international experts key topics covered include survivor characteristics and experiences; the phenomenological experience of transmitted trauma legacies; the creation of Second Generation groups; the epigenetics of inherited trauma; the development of Second Generation writing; representation of Holocaust survivors in film; music and the transmission of memory; art music and the Holocaust; ancestral trauma and its effect on the ageing process of subsequent generations; 2G and 3G health issues and outcomes. Divided into two sections the first deals with the humanities: history and testimony literature film and theater art and music. The second section focusing on the social sciences and health-related sciences contains chapters dealing with studies in the fields of psychology sociology anthropology communication gerontology nursing and medicine. </p><p>This insightful handbook is a contemporary anthology for advanced students and scholars in the humanities along with those in behavioral social and health-related sciences concerned with research about second- and third-generation Holocaust survivors.</p>