Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories

Editor : Halina Brunning, Editor : Olya Khaleelee

Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories

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Table of Contents

Preface
Rowan Williams

Prologue
Halina Brunning and Olya Khaleelee

Introduction: I did not know
Claudia Nagel

Part I: Orthodox beginnings
1. On being: Hated and loved
Susan Kahn

2. My father’s tears
James Krantz

3. Roots and migration, belonging and identity fragments
Shmuel Erlich

4. The Talmud and beyond
Larry Hirschhorn

Part II: Sitting on the boundary: Marginality and belonging
5. Breaking the silence: Finding my words and group of belonging
Marlene Spero

6. Outsider insider
Vega Zagier Roberts

7. Assimilation and emancipation—a “lived experience”
Louisa Diana Brunner

8. Displaced: A Jew in the diaspora
Stan Gold

9. What’s in the suitcase? A tale of three (or four) countries
Eliat Aram

Part III: Emigration and identity
10. Written in stone, moving like water
Leslie B. Brissett

11. How Eros won over Thanatos
Halina Brunning

12. Rising from the ashes
Olya Khaleelee

13. The attic and the cellar
Franca Fubini

14. Discovering identity: Reflections on an American life
Edward R. Shapiro

15. The risk of being oneself: Will history repeat itself?
Alicia E. Kaufmann

Part IV: Will history repeat itself?
16. I have no other country
Mira Erlich-Ginor

17. My literal suitcase and my suitcase-in-the-mind
Mannie Sher

18. Fragments from elsewhere: Finding a voice in the babel of tongues
Leila Djemal

Conclusions
Dorothee von Tippelskirch-Eissing

Epilogue
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

Index

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