![]() ![]() Results point to ways that resilience and vulnerability may interact, qualifying one another in the process of meaning making. ![]() The finding that descendants resist binary readings of wellbeing and distress/illness challenges the cross-cultural translation of the resilience construct as a static construct or measure of wellness. The meaning of the emotional "scratch" is mediated by culturally particular spiritual and moral-political worldviews as well as silent expressions of intergenerational memory that function both as risk and resilience factors for descendants’ distress. This self-depiction challenges the typical profile in the literature of the pathologized and vulnerable descendant. Respondents normalize and valorize emotional wounds describing them as a "scratch" and as a "badge of honor". Ethnographic interviews reveal unique local configurations of emotional vulnerability and strength. This study explores the phenomenological experience of the transmitted trauma legacies of Jewish-Israeli Holocaust descendants and their self-perceived sense of vulnerability and resilience. ![]()
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