Nathan Moses Szajnberg

Biography

Stories of courage and humility of elite combat soldiers in a democratic society.

Life paths of 76 children from birth to thirty. What matters in raising children.

Nathan Szajnberg was born in a German D.P. camp in 1949. He attended the University of Chicago studying with Bruno Bettelheim and Saul Bellow. He is the Wallerstein Research Fellow in Psychoanalysis, and now lives in Jerusalem.

His first book, Educating the Emotions, is about Bruno Bettelheim’s ideas. His second, coauthored with Henry Massie, Lives Across Time, looks at 76 children from birth to thirty.
"Reluctant Warriors: Israelis Suspended Between Rome and Jerusalem," tells the stories of elite combat unit citizen soldiers during the Intifada, who they are and what made them the men they have become.

He is working on a non-fiction book, Jacob and Joseph: Father and Son; Judaism’s Architects, and a novel, "Unspoken: Or What is Said After Death."


Selected Works

Non-fiction
Reluctant Warriors: Israelis Suspended Between Rome and Jerusalem
Stories from elite combat unit citizen soldiers about how they became the men they are and how they balance the tension between soldierhood and being humane.
Nonfiction
Educating the Emotions: Bruno Bettelheim and Psychoanalytic Development
The first and only critical study of Bettelheim’s ideas and influences in areas including child-rearing, institutions, anthropology and education.
Lives Across Time/Growing Up
Follow the life paths of 76 children from birth to thirty. You will learn what helps and what hinders a child’s growth into adulthood. Using both prospective observations, film, and retrospective interviews, you will also learn about how memory works. A landmark study.



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