Postmemory, Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Ghosts

Through a collection of letters sent by members of a Jewish family between 1925-42, this fascinating book explores phenomenological and psychoanalytical aspects of the Holocaust and its associated trauma, and the impact on future generations of the same family.

Rony Alfandary, PhD, is a clinical social worker, photographer and lecturer at the University of Haifa and Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is the Director of the Programme of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Bar-Ilan University. He has published prose and poetry as well as several works of non-fiction including Exile and Return: A Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet (Routledge).

Part One. Introduction Part Two. The Letters