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 New York.

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 book on Ethiopian/​Israeli children's pictures, stories and lives.

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 critical study of Bettelheim’s ideas and influences in areas including child-rearing, institutions, anthropology and education.
Lives Across Time
Follow the life paths of 76 children from birth to thirty. Learn what helps and what hinders a child’s growth into adulthood. Here is how memory works. A landmark study.