Wounds into Wisdom
Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma

This was an intellectually stimulating, compelling, easy to read book about the legacies and struggles of individual, familial and cultural traumas, and it led to a lot of important personal insights for me, as a Jewish 2x cancer survivor. After having read it the first time I am stuck between wanti......more

Sometimes the most important teaching a rabbi does occurs outside the classroom – when giving sermons and lectures or during counseling sessions. Two rabbis offer the lessons they learned over the course of their rabbinate in two new works: Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Ph.D., discusses how to overcome tr......more

I've read and thought a lot about generational trauma since starting my own therapy journey and reading, "My Grandmother's Hands." This book, written by a retired rabbi and psychotherapist, is about understanding and healing from Jewish intergenerational trauma. It's full of wisdom and insight, espe......more

I appreciated "Wounds Into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma," but would have to consider the book more of a primer for those with a vested interest in the area of trauma. Rabbi Firestone creates compelling discussions around the impact of protracted historical trauma involving Israeli......more

Tirzah Firestone created a very clear picture of how trauma functions in different Jewish communities throughout the Jewish diaspora. This book helped me begin to fill in some knowledge gaps about my own family. It also helped me begin reaching out to a local reformed synagogue for my own community......more