University Press of America
Pages: 96
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7618-5477-7 • Paperback • April 2011 • $38.99 • (£30.00)
Rachel Lev-Wiesel, Ph.D., a professor and chair of the Graduate School of Creative Art Therapies, University of Haifa in Israel, has published more than one hundred scientific papers and chapters and five books on issues such as the long-term effects of the Holocaust, intergenerational transmission of trauma, and child sexual abuse. She is a second-generation descendant of Holocaust survivors.
Susan Weinger, Ph.D., professor of social work at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, focuses on gender issues, poverty, and multicultural sensitivity in her teaching, research, and service activities.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 The Continuing Influence of Early Trauma
Chapter 4 Childhood Sexual Abuse
Chapter 5 Marina
Chapter 6 David
Chapter 7 Condolisa
Chapter 8 Dunia
Chapter 9 Tova
Chapter 10 Afterword
Chapter 11 References
Chapter 12 About the Authors
This is a book which makes incomprehensible crimes experienceable. As if the atrocities of the Shoah were not enough, the abused bodies and souls of the persons given voice in this book were tarnished through sexual abuse. Reading their narratives one comes to rediscover the limits of suffering and the incredible power and resiliency of the narrators. One can feel their breath on one's skin, and find solace in their incredible ability to both raise a monument of suffering for those who are not with us and one of courage and hope for those who are. My father's words…echoed throughout the book: 'I wish you, my son, to never have to suffer what you can endure.'
— Zvi Eisikovits, Professor of Social Welfare and Director, Center for the Study of Society, University of Haifa