Rony Alfandary, Ph.D., is a clinical social worker, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and photographer. He is a lecturer at the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa and the former director of the Post-Graduate Program of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His recent publications include Exile and Return: A Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet and Postmemory, Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Ghosts: The Salonica Cohen Family and Trauma across Generations, both published by Routledge.Professor Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the director of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, the Abraham and Edita Spiegel family professor in Holocaust Research, the Rabbi Pynchas Brener professor in Research on the Holocaust of European Jewry, and professor of Modern Jewish History in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

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• Table of ContentsList of Figures1. Introduction Judy Tydor Baumel Schwartz and Rony AlfandaryPart One – Cultural and Psychological Aspects of Postmemorial Work2. Searching, searching, searching…. Are there any relatives in the room?Rony Alfandary3. Then Came Hitler: A Lifetime of Choices on My Path of Postmemorial WorkJudy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz4. Reflections on Postmemory – with some notes from Ireland and GreeceRichard Pine5. Traumatic Childhood and Growing up in the Shadow of Trauma: When Post-Trauma Meets Postmemory: The story of David, a Holocaust survivorMaia Jessica Shoham6. From Stone Tomb to Flourishing Vineyard: Moving from Silent Testimony to Living Creativity in "Creating memory", a Bibliotherapy Initiative for Third Generation Holocaust SurvivorsBella Sagi7. Never Forget – The Net Will Remember: Connective Memory as a Form of Postmemory in the Age of Digital PlatformsOshri Bar-GilPart Two - Postmemorial work in Literature and Art8. Letting the Monster in? Illustrating the Holocaust in Contemporary Israeli Children’s Picture BooksErga Heller9. "Where's the little girl? What little girl? Was there ever a little girl?": From Narrative Memory to Emotional Memory in Nava Semel's Book "And the Rat Laughed"Naama Reshef10. The presence of absence Post-memory in my lifeNaomi Shmuel11. "I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors": Second Generation Postmemory in Animated DocumentaryLiat Steir-Livny12. "If It's ME Reading the Signs": Carl Jung's Synchronicity and the a-causal in Holocaust Postmemory at the MoviesMichelle Lisses-Topaz13. Writing the erasureIlana Eilati ShalitList of Contributors

Rony Alfandary, Ph.D., is a clinical social worker, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and photographer. He is a lecturer at the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa and the former director of the Post-Graduate Program of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His recent publications include Exile and Return: A Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet and Postmemory, Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Ghosts: The Salonica Cohen Family and Trauma across Generations, both published by Routledge.Professor Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the director of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, the Abraham and Edita Spiegel family professor in Holocaust Research, the Rabbi Pynchas Brener professor in Research on the Holocaust of European Jewry, and professor of Modern Jewish History in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

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• Table of ContentsList of Figures1. Introduction Judy Tydor Baumel Schwartz and Rony AlfandaryPart One – Cultural and Psychological Aspects of Postmemorial Work2. Searching, searching, searching…. Are there any relatives in the room?Rony Alfandary3. Then Came Hitler: A Lifetime of Choices on My Path of Postmemorial WorkJudy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz4. Reflections on Postmemory – with some notes from Ireland and GreeceRichard Pine5. Traumatic Childhood and Growing up in the Shadow of Trauma: When Post-Trauma Meets Postmemory: The story of David, a Holocaust survivorMaia Jessica Shoham6. From Stone Tomb to Flourishing Vineyard: Moving from Silent Testimony to Living Creativity in "Creating memory", a Bibliotherapy Initiative for Third Generation Holocaust SurvivorsBella Sagi7. Never Forget – The Net Will Remember: Connective Memory as a Form of Postmemory in the Age of Digital PlatformsOshri Bar-GilPart Two - Postmemorial work in Literature and Art8. Letting the Monster in? Illustrating the Holocaust in Contemporary Israeli Children’s Picture BooksErga Heller9. "Where's the little girl? What little girl? Was there ever a little girl?": From Narrative Memory to Emotional Memory in Nava Semel's Book "And the Rat Laughed"Naama Reshef10. The presence of absence Post-memory in my lifeNaomi Shmuel11. "I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors": Second Generation Postmemory in Animated DocumentaryLiat Steir-Livny12. "If It's ME Reading the Signs": Carl Jung's Synchronicity and the a-causal in Holocaust Postmemory at the MoviesMichelle Lisses-Topaz13. Writing the erasureIlana Eilati ShalitList of Contributors

Rony Alfandary, Ph.D., is a clinical social worker, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and photographer. He is a lecturer at the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa and the former director of the Post-Graduate Program of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His recent publications include Exile and Return: A Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet and Postmemory, Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Ghosts: The Salonica Cohen Family and Trauma across Generations, both published by Routledge.Professor Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the director of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, the Abraham and Edita Spiegel family professor in Holocaust Research, the Rabbi Pynchas Brener professor in Research on the Holocaust of European Jewry, and professor of Modern Jewish History in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

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• Table of ContentsList of Figures1. Introduction Judy Tydor Baumel Schwartz and Rony AlfandaryPart One – Cultural and Psychological Aspects of Postmemorial Work2. Searching, searching, searching…. Are there any relatives in the room?Rony Alfandary3. Then Came Hitler: A Lifetime of Choices on My Path of Postmemorial WorkJudy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz4. Reflections on Postmemory – with some notes from Ireland and GreeceRichard Pine5. Traumatic Childhood and Growing up in the Shadow of Trauma: When Post-Trauma Meets Postmemory: The story of David, a Holocaust survivorMaia Jessica Shoham6. From Stone Tomb to Flourishing Vineyard: Moving from Silent Testimony to Living Creativity in "Creating memory", a Bibliotherapy Initiative for Third Generation Holocaust SurvivorsBella Sagi7. Never Forget – The Net Will Remember: Connective Memory as a Form of Postmemory in the Age of Digital PlatformsOshri Bar-GilPart Two - Postmemorial work in Literature and Art8. Letting the Monster in? Illustrating the Holocaust in Contemporary Israeli Children’s Picture BooksErga Heller9. "Where's the little girl? What little girl? Was there ever a little girl?": From Narrative Memory to Emotional Memory in Nava Semel's Book "And the Rat Laughed"Naama Reshef10. The presence of absence Post-memory in my lifeNaomi Shmuel11. "I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors": Second Generation Postmemory in Animated DocumentaryLiat Steir-Livny12. "If It's ME Reading the Signs": Carl Jung's Synchronicity and the a-causal in Holocaust Postmemory at the MoviesMichelle Lisses-Topaz13. Writing the erasureIlana Eilati ShalitList of Contributors