Trauma was a potent influence in the lives of pre-1924 Eastern
European Jewish immigrants. They uprooted themselves because of
grinding poverty, anti-Semitic discrimination, pogroms, and the
violence of World War I. This book’s psychoanalytically-informed
life stories, based on 22 in-depth interviews with the
immigrants’ adult children, tell the tales of these immigrants
and their children. Many of the children believed their parents had
left their lives in Eastern Europe behind them. This
disavowal—aided by the immigrants’ silence and denial--allowed
their children to minimize the trauma and loss their parents
suffered both before and after immigrating. I analyze the impact of
parental trauma and loss on the second generation. Trauma and loss
affected the transmission of memory, and, consequently, often
immigrants’ recollections were not passed on to future
generations. The topics of trauma and loss in the lives of Eastern
European immigrants are relevant in understanding current
immigrants to America. Often immigrants’ children tried to repay
the debt that they felt was incurred by their parents’
sacrifices. Resilience, accomplishment, and their transition from
their immigrant parents’ world to their own full participation in
the American milieu characterized the adult lives of the
immigrants’ children.
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