The Aftermath: Living with the Holocaust

by Aaron Hass

Overview

The Aftermath offers a perspective of how one who has lived with terror for years is able to avoid paralysis and move forward. The Aftermath offers the most comprehensive examination of the psychological impact of the Holocaust on survivors ever undertaken and covers the widest range of topics, including: survivor guilt, the absence of mourning, the psychological characteristics of survivor families, a survivor's view of God, survivors' feelings about Germans as well as their own countrymen of origin, and the survivor's ongoing sense of vulnerability.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521574594
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/13/1996
Series:	Living with the Holocaust
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. A view of survivors; 2. 'Whose Fault Was It?'; 3. Mourning; 4. Vulnerabilities; 5. The mask of the survivor; 6. The importance of age; 7. Intrusions of memory; 8. Survivor families; 9. 'Was God Watching This?'; 10. Revenge; 11. Collective guilt.

What People are Saying About This

William Helmreich

A remarkable account of how human beings can, despite great suffering, learn to live, hope, trust, and even love again.

Michael Berenbaum

Aaron Hess has established his reputation as a sensitive student of survivors. He writes with pognance and power not only of their experience of traumatization, but of their attempts -- often quite successful -- to cope with their experience and to rebuild in the aftermath. He speaks with survivors and listens to survivors rather than speaking of them, talking about them and casting their experience in psychological jargon that restates and reconfirms the accepted and is tone deaf to the new. His work is a substantial and most worthy contribution to the growing literature that may force us to reexamine more prevalent interpretations of survival and the regeneration of life.

Editorial Reviews

"In this beautifully written book, Aaron Hass explores human responses to the trauma of the Holocaust from a psychosocial and mental health perspective....The book succeeds in offering a balanced view of survivors as individuals who have been able to move forward following adversity, but at great psychic cost." Jewish Book World

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