Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories

Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 270
- Category :
Organisational Psychology - Category 2 :
Trauma and Violence - Catalogue No : 98043
- ISBN 13 : 9781800133105
- ISBN 10 : 1800133103
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