The Holocaust across generations : trauma and its inheritance among descendants of survivors / Janet Jacobs.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Family narratives and the social construction of descendant identity -- Ritual and the emotional transmission of Holocaust trauma -- Redefining the sacred: spirituality and the crisis of masculinity among children and grandchildren of survivors -- The social relations of inherited trauma: the meaning of attachment and connection in the lives of descendants -- Reengaging the past: identity, mourning, and empathy at sites of terror -- Descendants as Holocaust carriers: bringing the past into public consciousness -- The changing landscape of Holocaust remembrance and future directions in the study of traumatic inheritance.