Generations of the Holocaust

Generations of the Holocaust (Psychoanalytic Study of Survivors' Children, 1982)

A Foundational Psychoanalytic Study of the Holocaust's Effects on Survivors and the Second Generation

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Generations of the Holocaust
• Editor: Martin S. Bergmann ; Milton E. Jucovy
• Publisher: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, New York
• Publication Date: 1982
• ISBN-10: 0465026664
• Edition Details: Basic Books, New York, 1982. Edited by Martin S. Bergmann and Milton E. Jucovy. With bibliography and index.
• Binding: Publisher's dark green cloth boards, issued with a printed dust jacket.
• Physical Format: Octavo (8vo). Bibliography on p. 317 and an index. No maps or plates.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good (VG)
• Exterior / Boards: The dark green cloth boards are clean, with no marks seen. The spine beneath the jacket is not fully visible.
• Interior: The text pages are clean, clear and unmarked, with no foxing seen. The binding is tight. The front endpaper carries an ownership stamp and a handwritten date, together with a partial pencil note at the extreme top edge.
• Provenance: Ownership stamp on the front endpaper: "Woolf Solomon, B.A [Hons.] M.A. [Psych.] [Rand] Registered Clinical Psychologist", with the handwritten green ink date "Jan 83" and a partial pencil note at the top edge.
• The Dust Jacket: Present. Olive and gold with grey stripes, protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover. Condition is Good to Very Good. There is a small chip or tear at the top edge of the front panel near the head, a small tear on the front panel at the spine fold, and chipping and wear with a crease at the head of the spine. A small nick at the top edge of the back panel, a price/ISBN label on the lower back panel, and light rubbing and general age wear are also present.

Synopsis & Historical Value

Published by Basic Books in New York in 1982, Generations of the Holocaust is an edited collection of papers, reports and case histories drawn from the work of the Group for the Psychoanalytic Study of the Effect of the Holocaust on the Second Generation. It examines the psychoanalytic treatment of the children of survivors and the problems of later generations.

The volume also includes a section devoted to the traumas, and the analyses, of the children of Nazi persecutors. The approach is clinical and technical, written by psychoanalysts for practitioners and serious students.

The book is cited as a foundational text in later literature on intergenerational trauma, and was reviewed in psychiatric and psychoanalytic journals including Psychiatric Services, the Psychoanalytic Review and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. This copy carries the stamp of a Rand-based clinical psychologist and is dated January 1983, a fitting professional association.

Author Profile: Martin S. Bergmann

Martin S. Bergmann (1913-2014) was a psychoanalyst and educator at New York University. He reached a wide general audience through his unplanned and much-praised role as a philosopher in Woody Allen's 1989 film Crimes and Misdemeanors.

His other books include The Anatomy of Loving (1987), In the Shadow of Moloch (1992) and The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Technique. He co-edited this volume with Milton E. Jucovy.

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